I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsRead
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote expresses a profound awakening of perception and awareness.
E. E. Cummings captures the moment of enlightenment when one's senses and consciousness come alive to the world. The imagery of awakening ears and eyes suggests a new level of understanding and appreciation for life, inviting an exploration of existence and a deeper connection to reality.
Themes
AwarenessPerceptionEnlightenmentAwakeningSenses
In practice
Example use cases
During a graduation speech to highlight the importance of embracing new perspectives.
More from E. E. Cummings
All quotes βI'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CummingsRead
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CummingsRead
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
E. E. CummingsRead
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
E. E. CummingsRead
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
E. E. CummingsRead
Similar quotes
Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
Jeanette WintersonRead
Unless you come out of your mind and become a no-mind you will not know what life is all about, you will live in vain. You will not have your honeymoon, it is impossible. You will not know the sweetness that existence is full of and the ecstasy.
RajneeshRead
Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning.
Carl JungRead
All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
Anais NinRead
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
Jonathan EdwardsRead
One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.
Dalai LamaRead