e. e. cummings

Nothing recedes like progress. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#nothing #progress #recedes

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. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#any #battle #being #day #doing

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#clocks #fathers #indians #least #merely

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#anything #careful #little #more #than

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

— e. e. cummings

#buy #drink #hard #humanity #i

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#away #blown #i #i think #known

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

— e. e. cummings

#believe #curiosity #delight #experience #human

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

— e. e. cummings

#dance #how #i #learn #rather