Quotes from ee cummings

She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still

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

you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.

Children are apt to forget to remember.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do —time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He'll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless

they speak whatever's on their mind they do whatever's in their pants the boys i mean are not refined they shake the mountains when they dance

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow everywhere descending

all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)

Since Feeling is first who ever pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you...

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

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.