E.E. cummings Quotes

“Always the beautiful answer that asks a more beautiful question.”

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable”

“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”

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

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

“Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because 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.”

“May I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.”

“Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows.”

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

“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.”

“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

“Hatred bounces.”

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”