“i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth”

— E.E. Cummings

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American poet 1894–1962

Swati Maliwal (1984) women activist who fights for women rights

TEDx Talks, accessed May 1, 2021

“Life is so much easier today than it was a hundred years ago. People used to have to work on farms from sun-up to sun-down, and still their children would die, and there often wouldn't be enough to eat. I wouldn't have lasted three days under such conditions. I have no right to be alive.”

John S. Hall (1960) Poet, author, singer, lawyer

July 22
Quotes from Daily Negations (2007)

“You know this moment in time
Is all my life
Every day is each
day that's passed
Every person alive
is everyone's who's died”

John Frusciante (1970) American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer

Every Person
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)

“I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.”

Imre Kertész book Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
Context: I am still here, although I don’t know why; accidentally, I guess, as I was born; I am as much or as little accomplice to my staying alive as I was to my birth.

“The feeling of exultant joy that there is anyone like that in the world. I shall never see him again, and he did not notice me, or would ever, but there is such a person alive, there is such a life, and I am here on this earth, in this age, to know it!”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

On Charles.
Bring Me a Unicorn (1971)

“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature

Source: The Great God Brown and Other Plays

“Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party.”

Kurt Vonnegut Happy Birthday, Wanda June

"Wanda June"
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970)
Context: Hello, I am Wanda June. Today was going to be my birthday, but I was hit by an ice-cream truck before I could have my party. I am dead now. I am in Heaven. That is why my parents did not pick up my cake at the bakery. I am not mad at the ice-cream truck driver, even though he was drunk when he hit me. It didn't hurt much. It wasn't even as bad as the sting of a bumblebee. I am really happy here! It's so much fun. I'm glad the driver was drunk. If he hadn't been, I might not have gone to Heaven for years and years and years. I would have had to go to high school first, and then beauty college. I would have had to get married and have babies and everything. Now I can just play and play and play. Any time I want any pink cotton candy I can have some. Everybody up here is happy — the animals and the dead soldiers and people who went to the electric chair and everything. They're all glad for whatever sent them here. Nobody is mad. We're all too busy playing shuffleboard. So if you think of killing somebody, don't worry about it. Just go ahead and do it. Whoever you do it to should kiss you for doing it. The soldiers up here just love the shrapnel and the tanks and the bayonets and the dum dums that let them play shuffleboard all the time — and drink beer.