Sunday
01Feb2009

Poet e.e. cummings on risk and the human spirit

DateSunday, February 1, 2009 at 7:43PM

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.

—e.e. cummings (1894-1962); poet, essayist, painter, playwright

 

 

 

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