E.E. Cummings: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

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

“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis”

“Love is the whole and more than all.”

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”

“Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds”

“now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened”

“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body”

“And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]”

“nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands”

“great men burn bridges before they come to them”

“i imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

“Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything”

“And the coolness of your smile is
stirringofbirds between my arms”

“Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise”

“love is the every only god”

“who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”

“yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason”

“Such was a poet and shall be and is
-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”