More quotes by E.E. Cummings

"Such was a poet and shall be and is-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand."
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
"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."
"life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis"
"may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone."