E E Cummings Poems On Death Quotes & Sayings

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me. — Michael Caine

If inspiration is allowed to unexpectedly enter you, it is also allowed to unexpectedly exit you. — Elizabeth Gilbert

When the extraordinary becomes ordinary it is time to move on. — Derek Darke

If you go off on her, you'd better record it, you know. Video, not just audio. Or it didn't happen as far as I'm concerned. — Lia Habel

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way. — Mark Z. Danielewski

We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
deeper meanings. — Allen Steck

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. — John Wooden

Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands
-excerpt of #35 from 100 Selected Poems — E. E. Cummings

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything
a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job
is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning
get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on. — Elizabeth Lesser

With a heart that is truthful, keeping you youthful. — Smokey Robinson

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away. — Arthur Schopenhauer

In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who draws all to himself in his resurrection. — Robert Farrar Capon

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it's there and sitting down
on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity
i hate you — E. E. Cummings

I don't care. I feel like if we don't make a trade, we have to get it done with what we've got. — Allen Iverson

I typically wake up at 5:30, and that's my time. I read newspapers, have coffee. — Ivanka Trump