142 Quotes by E.E. Cummings

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.

since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan wisdomlady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry--the best gesture of my brain is less thanyour eyelids' flutter which sayswe are for eachother: thenlaugh, leaning back in my armsfor life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses