E.E. Cummings quote: "The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'."

listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
E.E. CUMMINGS

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
E.E. CUMMINGS

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your f...
E.E. CUMMINGS

most people are perfectly afraid of silence
E.E. CUMMINGS

when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why <...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E.E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E.E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you l...
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I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,...
E.E. CUMMINGS

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
E.E. CUMMINGS

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never whol...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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If

"If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a...
E.E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty...
E.E. CUMMINGS

since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid
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may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they si...
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lovers alone wear sunlight.
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Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel....
E.E. CUMMINGS

One's not half of two; two are halves of one.
E.E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E.E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E.E. CUMMINGS

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
E.E. CUMMINGS

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E.E. CUMMINGS

I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes E.E. CUMMINGS

twice I have lived forever in a smile
E.E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E.E. CUMMINGS

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
E.E. CUMMINGS

Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel...
E.E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E.E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are
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i will wade out  till my thighs are steeped in burn...
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.
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somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence: E.E. CUMMINGS

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
E.E. CUMMINGS

sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva ...
E.E. CUMMINGS

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whos...
E.E. CUMMINGS

life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
E.E. CUMMINGS

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and n...
E.E. CUMMINGS

all which isn't singing is merely talking
and all talking's talking to oneself
(whether th...
E.E. CUMMINGS

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E.E. CUMMINGS

Only by you my heart always moves.
E.E. CUMMINGS

Love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace) <...
E.E. CUMMINGS

his lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine
E.E. CUMMINGS

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-myster...
E.E. CUMMINGS

I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like yo...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Here's to opening and upward...
and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughin...
E.E. CUMMINGS

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a b...
E.E. CUMMINGS

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
E.E. CUMMINGS

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie dis...
E.E. CUMMINGS

XVII

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until y...
E.E. CUMMINGS

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

Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying dai...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
some...
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ss
E.E. CUMMINGS

Love is the whole and more than all.
E.E. CUMMINGS

Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants a...
E.E. CUMMINGS

if i

or anybody don't
know where it her his

my next meal's coming from...
E.E. CUMMINGS

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' ...
E.E. CUMMINGS

i imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E.E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody el...
CUMMINGS

When the administrator feels himself to be the sole driving agency, and finds himself chiefly engage...
E.E. JONES

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates...
E.E. KNIGHT

The world was already a miserable place in the spring of that cursed year. The New Depression was at...
E.E. KNIGHT

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people i...
ERIN CUMMINGS

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public...
ERIN CUMMINGS

My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, b...
ERIN CUMMINGS

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.
ERIN CUMMINGS

Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I ha...
ERIN CUMMINGS

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it...
ERIN CUMMINGS

I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk, white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white pot...
BOB CUMMINGS

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degr...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the g...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th...
BURTON CUMMINGS

I'm just trying to figure out what it says.
ADAM CUMMINGS

You can die the death of a thousand cuts very easily.
ADAM CUMMINGS

The most eloquent way I could offer my respect is with a moment of silence.
ADAM CUMMINGS

This operation is worse than nothing. I don't think this is helping anybody.
ADAM CUMMINGS

As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try ...
JIM CUMMINGS

I passed by the row of meats at the Safeway and was afraid to buy Wall St Journal reporter on the Di...
JEANNE CUMMINGS

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.
ERIN CUMMINGS

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner ...
ERIN CUMMINGS

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutc...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The main thing is that it's comfortable and beautiful, ... That's my starting point when I'm thinkin...
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I just love the design, and of course I love the materials. These things are dug out of the earth .....
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I just love nice things. And I sort of spontaneously put them together.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

That's my other life. If I wasn't a jewelry designer, I'd be a gardener.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I like things that are not necessarily completely symmetrical ... but if there's a little asymmetry ...
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I like the sounds of the frogs at night and the sounds of the birds during the day.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

I think of Bergdorf's as being something like pastel sapphires.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

There's a weave there that was quite difficult to achieve.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

They're all faded from all the light we have in here, but I kind of like the color they faded to.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

He won't run again until the Slipper (April 8).
ANTHONY CUMMINGS

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.
ANTHONY CUMMINGS

At this stage I'm leaning to the Derby.
ANTHONY CUMMINGS

He pulled up well after his last start and all his problems seem to be behind him.
ANTHONY CUMMINGS

If some of it didn't rub off there would be something wrong.
ANTHONY CUMMINGS

I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereo...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

Things are actually working with DSS much better.
BILL CUMMINGS

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. ...
BILL CUMMINGS

Those inspections are good for a year. That's something we're looking to change, but that's the way ...
BILL CUMMINGS

Our customers will receive a great Starbucks experience.
BILL CUMMINGS

Food for Friends directly impacts each community in which Stop & shop operates and gives each store ...
BILL CUMMINGS

We have the best customers and associates in the business, no question.
BILL CUMMINGS

This was another great year for Food for Friends. People from all across the American northeast will...
BILL CUMMINGS

We're very excited about this new partnership. We know our customers will be thrilled with the abili...
BILL CUMMINGS

We're very excited about this partnership. We know our customers will be thrilled with the ability t...
BILL CUMMINGS

I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume...
ERIN CUMMINGS

I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are bang...
ERIN CUMMINGS

When I thought about Detroit, I would think big city, very urban - not a lot of places to walk aroun...
ERIN CUMMINGS

Horniness is just a mental state with a physical repercussion.
BINK CUMMINGS

Just picture the Eiffel Tower on its side and trying to maneuver it around an aircraft carrier with ...
BRUCE CUMMINGS

We receive the most incredible letters from the parents of special-needs children. It just gives the...
BRUCE CUMMINGS

If Mom takes the kids to the mall and one of the children walks outside the range, she can sweep her...
BRUCE CUMMINGS

I first got the idea for this product when my 3-year-old son hid under the bed after we called him f...
BRUCE CUMMINGS

We were excited to find that the cells responded to the damage by making appropriate new cells that ...
BRIAN CUMMINGS

We set out to find whether these cells would be able to respond to the injury in an appropriate and ...
BRIAN CUMMINGS

We had two dates last year ... It was a problem with vendors like getting new furniture and getting ...
BRIAN CUMMINGS

[The new building] is slowly being transferred, ... All the officers report here at night.
BRIAN CUMMINGS

Part of me says the city might be entirely lost, ... but if they are allowing visitors and volunteer...
BRIAN CUMMINGS

Phase one was to move into the building physically,
BRIAN CUMMINGS

We get things right once in a while. But it's far in between for us.
BOB CUMMINGS

We did what we thought we could do all year long. We did what we've done a lot in practice. We've ex...
BOB CUMMINGS

When we did the things we were supposed to do, we played well. But we made way too many mental mista...
BOB CUMMINGS

We had great practices this past week and this was a total surprise to me and my entire staff.
BOB CUMMINGS

The kids just started out playing real sluggish and low-key, and normally they're more excited and i...
BOB CUMMINGS

The recognition is well-deserved, brother. Praise the Lord.
BOB CUMMINGS

Our offensive line did a great job. We didn't want them to touch the ball after watching that drive ...
BOB CUMMINGS

We moved nearly 1.7 million tons in containers in 2005, up 15 percent from 2004. We've had a very go...
BOB CUMMINGS

We invite all Canadians who share their names with any of the contenders for Canada's next prime min...
BOB CUMMINGS

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS

Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question.
EE CUMMINGS

I have to be honest, as a developer, the last thing you want to hear is that there's a delay in your...
CASEY CUMMINGS

The purpose of the fund is to revitalize properties and neighborhoods. It's a profit-driven fund, bu...
CASEY CUMMINGS

All one of our firefighters could do was comfort her on the boat ride back until she could get medic...
CASEY CUMMINGS

It was pretty bad to see firsthand what these people were experiencing.
CASEY CUMMINGS

We had to pull this little lady out of her house through her window.
CASEY CUMMINGS

You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
BURTON CUMMINGS

Getting those kinds of matches like Joe had is important, and made the day all the more worthwhile. ...
DARRIN CUMMINGS

There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there ...
BURTON CUMMINGS

This colt will beat anything. He's very good. We saw last week that he's not as good on the wet but ...
BART CUMMINGS

It'll be good if he does. It will get us a bit of a price.
BART CUMMINGS

We've probably got the best team going into the spring we have had for a few years, ... We seem to b...
BART CUMMINGS

I still love what I do and I've done OK over the years, ... You're a long time retired and anyway, I...
BART CUMMINGS

I would have preferred barrier five so now he will probably have to go back because he can be tardy ...
BART CUMMINGS

He's come back a lot more relaxed now,
BART CUMMINGS

She's the best-weighted horse in history,
BART CUMMINGS

I think to myself, 'What would I like to have if someone were to give me something?' And that's what...
ANGELA CUMMINGS

You're saying to the people of the United States that you all made no mistakes. I've got to go back ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We need to act as fast as we can to create that diplomatic resolution so that we will not have this ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot win this race by doing the same things we've been doing, ... I thank Howard Dean for makin...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I had expected an expression of regret or apology from Congressman Watt in the subsequent days after...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Men, women and children, our fellow countrymen have now gone days - days - without food and far too ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

To the president of the United States, I simply say that God cannot be pleased with our response,
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

Many of these Americans who now are struggling to survive are Americans of color. We cannot allow it...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

[Two members who have seen the records, Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Elijah Cummings, D-Md., sa...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

[Fueling momentum for the legislation has been a feeling that Palmeiro's suspension was an affront t...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I heard him say that. I remember that a number of people got kind of upset and kind of just drifted ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The picture was being painted that things were not as bad as they appeared to be
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I'm very concerned and very upset that anybody who would issue such a statement would be in the lead...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

It seems as if there are some police who believe that it is their job to not only arrest, but to con...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

If I'm a regular citizen and I'm looking at this and I've got the top flight people in the drug war ...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

though many may disagree with the war, ... Toccara was pursing her dream.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who d...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I remember he used to like to go have coffee with the guys at the old Snack House,
BARBARA CUMMINGS

We're both here because of our grandchildren. It feels like a word-of-mouth thing. Everybody I meet ...
BARBARA CUMMINGS

I asked her, 'Are you following the Cindy Sheehan story?' She was.
BARBARA CUMMINGS

This money will be used to do a study by professionals in the field of beach reclamation, to look at...
WAYNE CUMMINGS

Every girl should have at least one wild fling on her resumé.
DONNA CUMMINGS

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

That was probably a nine?point swing in the meet. All of a sudden they got the pin and that changed ...
DAN CUMMINGS

We've been putting in freshman Josh Homer in at a couple of different weights, and he's been coming ...
DARRIN CUMMINGS

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I gu...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

The higher you climb on the mountain, the harder the wind blows
SAM CUMMINGS

It's a lawless village. They've got to get something. It's just getting worse and worse.
PAUL CUMMINGS

How about that, I just congratulated the part-winners,
BART CUMMINGS

Rob has not been a year-round wrestler like most of the other kids who make it out here. He is most ...
DARRIN CUMMINGS

Retrofitting can be simple things like taking a cafeteria, adding bolts to the top and bottom of the...
JOHN CUMMINGS

It's an unfortunate accident. There's a kid, a young man in county jail on an unrelated charge that ...
CHARLIE CUMMINGS

Yeah, basically. Basically. It was unbelievable.
EMILY CUMMINGS

I love the baroque pearls, which have a beautiful luster.
ANGELA CUMMINGS

Normally, my first impression would have been this is not good. But I've come around.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We cannot allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who d...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

The Congressional Black Caucus is deeply disappointed that the president's actions this week with re...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

We believe 300 to 400 troops going in there, along with our allies, could bring about the peace. The...
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

a distinguished leader who championed the rights of all Americans.
ELIJAH CUMMINGS

I don't have any details on how we'll proceed with the disposition of assets, but the goal is to get...
JOHN CUMMINGS

There's no one that can comprehend what it means to have a place like this until you need it. This t...
LOUISE CUMMINGS

Saintly was a champion,
BART CUMMINGS

A surge of joy flooded over me that I shall never forget. I felt like shouting out that I had made a...
CANDY CUMMINGS

Love doesn't die, Meadow. It starts out small at first, and then it grows, and it keeps growing, unt...
LINDSAY CUMMINGS

....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely bla...
QUINN CUMMINGS

If you have it, I'd like to have it. I love where I'm at but I'd like to have it.
CHARLIE CUMMINGS

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

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