e. e. cummings
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.Collection: Valentines
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Inspirational
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.Collection: Love
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.Collection: Experience
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.Collection: Knowledge
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.Collection: Intelligence
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.Collection: Humor
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.Collection: Best
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.Collection: Nature
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.Collection: Learning
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.Collection: Life
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.Collection: Imagination
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Nothing recedes like progress.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
It takes three to make a child.
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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.Collection: Inspirational
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.Collection: Being Yourself
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.Collection: Reality
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Inspirational
...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.Collection: Fate
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of livingCollection: Heart
yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worldsCollection: World
Love is the whole and more than all.Collection: Love
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot 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.Collection: Strong
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.Collection: Mystery
Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.Collection: Miracle
may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.Collection: Beautiful
Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.Collection: Stars
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.Collection: Love
In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and weeCollection: Spring
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.Collection: Fighting
all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yesCollection: Dream