Brilliant and Beautiful EE Cummings

One of the brightest poets ever to walk the Earth was no doubt EE Cummings. Here are some of his insightful quotes:

“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.”



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



“The earth laughs in flowers.”


“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...”

“for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea”


“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”



“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”



“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

“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.”

And yes(even though Richard Dawkins would protest greatly) faith can inspire great poetry:

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
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

Other notes:

Right now I'm listening to Josh Calhoun, a brilliant guitarist/singersongwriter from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Check out http://cdbaby.com/cd/jcalhoun Joshua has a unique voice that cries to be heard. What brilliant undetected talent. Also stopped on CDBaby to listen to Dorothy Zerbe. She is also very much worth sampling. Good ones are great. Some tracks are just average. Also listened to Pierce Pettis, Tim Grimm and Townes Van Zandt this morning with my cup of Cranberry Cream coffee. Nice peaceful Sunday morning. Wishing you peace at your home this morning too :)