e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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.

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.

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

I thank You God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.