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35 phrases by EE Cummings for American poetry lovers

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

My blood consents and kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Doubt can turn men’s gaze into an evil one. Your faith in how, your joy in why.

Not being dead is not being alive.

I’d rather learn to sing with a bird than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I believe that “yes” is the only living thing.

Life is not a paragraph. And death I think is not parentheses.

Whenever you think or believe or know, you are a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you are none other than yourself.

I’ll take the sun in my mouth and jump in the fresh air. I live with my eyes closed, running against the darkness.

Your eyes have their silence: in your most fragile gesture there are things that enclose me, or that I dare not touch because they are too close.

Yours is the light by which my spirit is born: – you are my sun, my moon and all my stars.

Only lovers use sunlight.

For all we’ve lost (like you or me), it’s always ourselves we find at sea.

The world is full of mud and wonderful as a puddle.

I like my body when it’s with your body. It’s such a new thing. Better muscles and more nerves.

She might be going to hell, of course, but at least she’s not standing still.

A wind took the rain away and the sky away and all the leaves away and the trees are standing. I think I’ve also known autumn for a long time.

I love you so much, more than anyone on earth. And I like you better than anything in heaven.

Most people are afraid of silence.

Your head is a living forest full of singing birds.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead imagination, but not buried imagination.

We can never be born enough.

May my heart always be open to little birds that are the secrets of life.

Love is the whole and more than anything.

Art is a mystery. Mystery is something immeasurable.

Love is a season deeper than reason.

Love is the only god.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire. And live for love, even if the stars walk in the opposite direction.

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

Awake, chaos: we dozed off.

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).

A good book has no end.

Because you are not afraid to kiss the earth (and consequently dare to ascend to heaven).

I can’t say what it is in you that closes and opens; only a part of me understands that the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

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