e. e. cummings Quotes

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

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  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

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  Stars, Moon, Light

  E. E. Cummings (2007). “Selected Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

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  Reality, Firsts, Steps

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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.

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  Love, Life, Uplifting

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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• You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

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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.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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

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  Love, Trust, Stars

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• ...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.

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  Fate, Destiny, Alive

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• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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  Summer, Nature, Spring

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• Life ,for eternal us,is now

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  Eternal

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

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  Heart, Bird, Secret

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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  Life, Beautiful, Wise

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• The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

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  Fighting, Men, Trying

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• Tomorrow is our permanent address.

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  Future, Addresses, Tomorrow

  1 x 1 no. 39, l. 12 (1944)

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

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  Mystery, Happens

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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  Love, Best Love, Nothing Makes Sense

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• ...on forever's very now we stand.

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  Forever, Forever Love

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.84, Grove Press

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• I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

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  Cute, Good Friend, Two

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• n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s

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• most people are perfectly afraid of silence

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  Inspirational, People, Silence

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