142 Quotes by E.E. Cummings

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

listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go

may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (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) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands-excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell