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

- E.E. CUMMINGS

"somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(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"

- e.e.cummings

"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"

- E.E. CUMMINGS

"dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)


trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)


honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)


never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for god likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)"

-e.e. cummings

"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."

- e.e. cummings

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing it’s best night and day, to make you like everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle…which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

- e.e. cummings

"maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea"

-e.e. cummings

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

-e.e. cummings

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

- e.e. cummings