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

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

e e cummings

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

e e cummings

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

e e cummings

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night 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

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.

e e cummings

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

e e cummings, on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923

from maggie and molly and milly and may