Unbeing Dead

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

~ E. E. Cummings

Resist Much

“Resist much, obey little.”

~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

To Be Nobody But Yourself

“To be nobody but yourself 

in a world which is doing its best day and night 

to make you like everybody else 

means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight 

and never stop fighting.”

~ E.E. Cummings

I Have Loved The Stars

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

~ Sarah Williams

If You're Reading This

“If you're reading this...

Congratulations, you're alive.

If that's not something to smile about,

then I don't know what is.”

~ Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

Tell Me

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do

with your one wild and precious life?”

~ Mary Oliver

I Carry Your Heart With Me

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)

I am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my dear; 

and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)

I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)

I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant 

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

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