Quotes by E.E. Cummings

“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,m...”

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

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

“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 it...”

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”

“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 w...”

“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...”

“anyone lived in a pretty how town(with up so floating many bells down)spring summer autumn winterhe sang his didn't he danced his didWomen and men(both little and small)cared for anyone not at allt...”

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

“love is thicker than forgetmore thinner than recallmore seldom than a wave is wetmore frequent than to failit is most mad and moonlyand less it shall unbethan all the sea which onlyis deeper than t...”

“twice I have lived forever in a smile”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

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

“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.”

“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.”

“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”

“Always its Spring)and everyones in love and flowers pick themselves.”

“I am an i poet.”

“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 ...”