E. E. Cummings citations

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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.”

“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.”

“seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here”

“the mind is its own beautiful prisoner.
Mind looked long at the sticky moon
opening in dusk her new wings

then decently hanged himself, one afternoon.

The last thing he saw was you
naked amid unnaked things…”

“(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)”

“you shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.”

“You are my sun,
my moon, and
all my stars.”

“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”

“tommorow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now”

“Your homecoming will be my homecoming”

“Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers”