Quotes from E.E. Cummings

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

Love is the whole and more than all.

we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis

You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness in the sleeping curves of my body

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

i imagine that yes is the only living thing.

love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

love is the every only god

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.

the mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things...

existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)

tomorrow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear. And whatever is done by only me...is your doing. I fear no fate...for you are my fate, I want no world cause you are my world. Here is the deepest secret no one knows. Here is the root of root and bud of bud & the sky of the sky of the tree of life. Which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. It's the wonder that keeps the stars apart.