e. e. cummings

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

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

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. ”

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. ”

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. ”

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ”

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. ”

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. ”

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

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