„in time of daffodils(who knowthe goal of living is to grow)forgetting why, remember howin time of lilacs who proclaimthe aim of waking is to dream,remember so(forgetting seem)in time of roses(who amazeour now and here with paradise)forgetting if, remember yesin time of all sweet things beyondwhatever mind may comprehend,remember seek(forgetting find)and in a mystery to be(when time from time shall set us free)forgetting me, remember me“— E.E. Cummings 1
„I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance“— E.E. Cummings 1
„A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.“— 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, 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)“— 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
„For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.“— E.E. Cummings100 Selected Poems
„Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.“— E.E. Cummings
„We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.“— E.E. Cummings
„Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.“— E.E. Cummings
„I will take the sun in my mouthand leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyesto dash against darkness“— E.E. CummingsPoems, 1923-1954
„Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.“— E.E. Cummings
„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.“— E.E. Cummings
