Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E.
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
E. E. Cummings
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the sky of the sky of a tree called life;Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.I carry your heart.I carry it in my heart.”
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“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...”
“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.”
“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
“Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, wholly to be a fool while spring is in the world, then laugh. lean back in my arms, for life's not a paragraph, and death, I think, is no parenthesis.”
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”