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

E. E. Cummings

Any Believe Curiosity Delight

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

Imagine Living Living Thing Only

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Wonderful World Is Mud

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Anything Careful Little Love

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

Began Had His Instant

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It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

Child Make Takes Three

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Children Clocks Fathers Indians

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

E. E. Cummings

Because Buy Drink Hard

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge

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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.

E. E. Cummings

Autumn Away Blown I Think

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

E. E. Cummings

Better Body Like More

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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.

E. E. Cummings

Any Battle Being Best

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

Alive Being Dead Isn't

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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.

E. E. Cummings

Amazing Blue Day Dream

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

Bird Dance How Learn

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

E. E. Cummings

Always Any Creation Destroy

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Better Fate Kisses Than

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Any Else Love Makes

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

E. E. Cummings

Door Go Good Hell

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

Always Answer Ask Beautiful

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

E. E. Cummings

Arse Everyone Except Man

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

E. E. Cummings

Because Black Dislike He

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

E. E. Cummings

Anybody He Little Made

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Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

Like Nothing Progress Recedes

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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

Divided Like Teeth Writers

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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

Write Reason Good Books

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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Walter Bagehot

Reality Times Best Escape

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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

Nations Main Campaign Long

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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

Men Mind Result Impresses

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The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

Concentrated Energy Essence Real

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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Walter Bagehot

Fault Man Misfortune Mother

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Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Walter Bagehot

Virtuous Person Mean Mind

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

Agreeable Greatest Mistake More

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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

Brings Down Family Idea

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

Art Best Casts Certain

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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot

Long Punish Wish Unwise

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

World Beautiful Terrible Thing

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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worldâ€™s deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

God Place Deep Gladness

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Go where your best prayers take you

Frederick Buechner

Go Prayer Take

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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Frederick Buechner

Life Grace Sleep Night

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

Frederick Buechner

Grace God Life Complete

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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Frederick Buechner

Doubt Ant Pants Faith

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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Frederick Buechner

Coincidence God Attention

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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt

Frederick Buechner

Life Touch Trembling Felt

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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Frederick Buechner

Impossible God Demonstrate Existence

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Frederick Buechner

Miracle Greater Sum Parts

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Frederick Buechner

Wise Eternally Curious

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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Frederick Buechner

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime

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Itâ€™s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Frederick Buechner

Words Unsaid Split Friends

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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Frederick Buechner

Vocation Deep Gladness

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1625 Essayist Quotes

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

E. E. Cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

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

E. E. Cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

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.

E. E. Cummings

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

E. E. Cummings

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. E. Cummings

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.

E. E. Cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

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

E. E. Cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

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

E. E. Cummings

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

E. E. Cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

Walter Bagehot

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Walter Bagehot

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Walter Bagehot

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

Walter Bagehot

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

Walter Bagehot

The real essence of work is concentrated energy.

Walter Bagehot

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Walter Bagehot

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

Walter Bagehot

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

Walter Bagehot

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

Walter Bagehot

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner

Go where your best prayers take you

Frederick Buechner