e e cummings

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

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

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

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. "

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. "

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

"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. "

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. "

"for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea "