e. e. cummings Quotes

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

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  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

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  Stars, Moon, Light

  E. E. Cummings (2007). “Selected Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

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  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

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  Love, Life, Uplifting

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

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• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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  Love, Trust, Stars

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• Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• ...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

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  Fate, Destiny, Alive

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• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

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  Night, Sky, Walks

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.127, W. W. Norton & Company

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• may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

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  Heart, Bird, Secret

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

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  Mystery, Happens

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.

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  Dream, Stars, Real

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• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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  Clever, Science, Doors

  1 x 1 (1944) no. 14

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

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  Love, Eye, Kissing

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

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  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

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  Miracle, Feels

  "95 poems (89)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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  Life, Confidence, Believe

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• the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

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  Inspirational, Eye, Small Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

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  Bird, Songbirds, Forests

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