E.E. Cummings Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhereI go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is youhere is the deepest secret nobody knows(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which growshigher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apartI carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

2. i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart) Selected Poems

3. i like my body when it is with yourbody. It is so quite new a thing.Muscles better and nerves more.i like your body. i like what it does,i like its hows. i like to feel the spineof your body and its bones, and the trembling-firm-smooth ness and which i willagain and again and againkiss, i like kissing this and that of you,i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzzof your electric fur, and what-is-it comesover parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,and possibly i like the thrillof under me you so quite new.

4. Lovers alone wear sunlight.

5. since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan wisdomlady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry--the best gesture of my brain is less thanyour eyelids' flutter which sayswe are for eachother: thenlaugh, leaning back in my armsfor life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

6. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

7. twice I have lived forever in a smile

8. Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.

9. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

10. Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves. 100 Selected Poems

11. And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

12. for whenever men are right they are not young 22 and 50 Poems

13. hate blows a bubble of despair intohugeness world system universe and bang-fear buries a tomorrow under woeand up comes yesterday most green and young E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

14. Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you

15. I am an i poet.

16. life's not a paragraphAnd death i think is no parenthesis

17. listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go

18. love is a deeper seasonthan reason;my sweet one Selected Poems

19. Lovers alone wear sunlight.

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

21. may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

22. 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-excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

23. since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962

24. 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.

25. twice I have lived forever in a smile

26. when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because 100 Selected Poems

27. Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?I say it, and you feel it in your hearts:no man or woman on this big small earth.How should our sages miss the mark of life,and our most skillful players lose the game?your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me:because all know, and no one understands.

28. You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.