Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

—e. e. cummings

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About e. e. cummings

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Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis...

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

—e. e. cummings

The flame started first by amazement over subject matter, that flame which only a great artist can have—not the emotional pleasure of the layman—but the intuitive understanding and recognition relating obvious reality to the esoteric, must then be confined to a form within which it can burn with a focused intensity: otherwise it flares, smokes and is lost like in an open bonfire.

—e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

—e. e. cummings

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

—e. e. cummings

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

—e. e. cummings

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

—Joseph Addison

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury

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That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

—Ernest Hemingway

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I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

—Shauna Niequist in Bittersweet

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Never make predictions, especially about the future.

—Casey Stengel

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