e. e. cummings

“Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”

“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.”

“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.”

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

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

“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

“To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.”

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”

“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

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

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

“It takes three to make a child.”

“Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.”

“Nothing recedes like progress.”

“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”

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