"To be nobody-but-myself...
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."
-Edward E. Cummings

"I am abnormally fond of that
precision which creates movement."
-Edward E. Cummings

"Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves...
Honor and love him...do not try to possess him.
Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow.
Only the artist in yourself is more
truthful than the night."
-Edward E. Cummings

"The question 'who am I?' is answered
by what I write, I become my writing."
-Edward E. Cummings

"The only slavery is service without love."
-Edward E. Cummings

"i thank You God
for most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural,
which is infinite, which is yes."
-Edward E. Cummings

"The earth laughs in flowers."
-Edward E. Cummings