282 Quotes by E. E. Cummings

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

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.

there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

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

And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.