E. E. Cummings

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

“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.”

“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...”

“We are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
and death i think is no parenthesis”

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

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”

“Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid” 

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