Quotes by e e cummings

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands


I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.


Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis


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.


The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.