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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

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Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Loving Life

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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.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

"A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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Inspirational, Life, Trust

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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

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Stars, Moon, Light

E. E. Cummings (2007). “Selected Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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Inspirational, Funny, Life

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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

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Reality, Firsts, Steps

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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

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Love, Life, Uplifting

E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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Inspirational, Life, Thank You

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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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Love, Trust, Stars

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Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.

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Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

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Fate, Destiny, Alive

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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Summer, Nature, Spring

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in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

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Night, Sky, Walks

E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.127, W. W. Norton & Company

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may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

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Heart, Bird, Secret

e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

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Heart, Player, Men

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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

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Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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

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Clever, Science, Doors

1 x 1 (1944) no. 14

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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

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Fighting, Men, Trying

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And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

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Mystery, Happens

E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you're still dreaming but it's slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn't always say 'just wondering' when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door, let's go.

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Dream, Stars, Real

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twice I have lived forever in a smile

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Forever

E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.

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Miracle, Feels

"95 poems (89)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

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Fascination, Movement, Poet

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Born: October 14, 1894
Died: September 3, 1962
Occupation: Poet
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