E.E. Cummings

"i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses"

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you"

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"

"You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I."

"a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long."

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"

"twice I have lived forever in a smile"

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis"