I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsRead
It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that a significant mistake can create a beautiful bond between two people.
E. E. Cummings' quote highlights the idea that sometimes, the moments we perceive as mistakes can lead to unexpected and profound connections between individuals. It suggests that love and relationships can emerge from unexpected circumstances, and that shared experiences, even if they seem wrong or misguided, can create lasting beauty and memories.
In practice
During a wedding toast discussing how love often arises from unforeseen circumstances.
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.
Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.
Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.
I understood that the Church had a Heart, and that this Heart was burning with love.
Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love.
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