e. e. cummings

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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