“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,my darling) I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has...”E. E. Cummings8
“...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.”E. E. Cummings1
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”E. E. Cummings1
“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.”E. E. Cummings0
“since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; 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. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your e...”E. E. Cummings0
“love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin le...”E. E. Cummings0
“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”E. E. Cummings0
“may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they a...”E. E. Cummings0
“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.”E. E. Cummings0
“if everything happens that can't be done (and anything's righter than books could plan) the stupidest teacher will almost guess (with a run skip around we go yes) there's nothing as something as one one hasn't a why or because or although (and buds know better than books don't grow) one's anything o...”E. E. Cummings0
“Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one und...”E. E. Cummings0
“You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.”E. E. Cummings0
“I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness”E. E. CummingsPoems0
“anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few...”E. E. CummingsSelected Poems0
“when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because”E. E. Cummings100 Selected Poems0
“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”E. E. Cummings100 Selected Poems0
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”E. E. Cummings0