100 Famous Quotes By E.E. Cummings, The Author Of 100 Selected Poems

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

You

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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.

You Never Yourself Like

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

You

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

Love Heart

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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

You Think Believe

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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

Will I

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And it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

You Will

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Lovers alone wear sunlight.

Alone

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

You Love

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

You

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Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

You God I

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The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

Love Hope

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May came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

Alone Home

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Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Death Think I

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Experience Believe

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

Like I

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

Heart I

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One's not half of two; two are halves of one.

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

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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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Twice I have lived forever in a smile

I

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A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

Think I

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And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

You Never Will I

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