I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
— ee cummings
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart… i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
— e.e. cummings, i carry your heart
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