Quotes from e e cummings

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

Almost anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. The moment you feel, you're 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.

You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.

yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds

no time ago or else a life walking in the dark i met christ jesus)my heart flopped over and lay still while he passed(as close as i'm to you yes closer made of nothing except loneliness.

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories which it contains. e.e. cummings

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine

may I be I is the only prayer

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because 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.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveller saying 'anywhere but here'.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

"One's not half of two, two are halves of one."

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).

The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of this puzzle that goes with us

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses.

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits the curve of my hip and the way my head rests on your shoulder, the way our hands just melt into one, and the way I feel complete when I'm with you...like the picture's finally completed and I'll never have to wonder what I'm missing.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.