e. e. cummings

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

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

“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.”

“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”