e.e. cummings

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are"

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight"

"I carry your heart with me"

"Since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things"

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter"

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake"

"Art is a mystery"

"Life is not a paragraph and death is no parenthesis"

"Being human is like being a lampshade"

"I do not care if all the world conspire to say you are wrong"

"You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead"

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to"

"For whatever we lose like a you or a me it is always ourselves we find in the sea"

"Here is the deepest secret nobody knows"

"Utterly invincible are all these moments"

"Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter"

"God is a being of heroic contradictions"

"One's not half two. Two are halves of one"

"All nothing's only our hugest home"

"Enter no farther into questions that cannot be answered"

"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question"

"In a world of yes, dare to say no"

"It's always ourselves we find in the sea"

"The crazy brave who risk all they have for all they might become"

"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away"

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination"

"The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself"

"When life gives you lemons make lemonade and find someone whose life has given them vodka"

"An artist, a man, a failure must proceed"