I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
E. E. CummingsRead
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a deep affection for physical intimacy and connection with a loved one.
In this quote, E. E. Cummings highlights the transformative power of love and physical closeness. The speaker finds a renewed sense of self through the intimate connection with their partner, suggesting that love enhances both the physical and emotional experience, making the body feel invigorated and alive in the presence of the beloved.
Themes
LoveIntimacyConnectionBodyRelationship
In practice
Example use cases
This quote is perfect for a wedding vow to express love and unity.
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
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm.
Tom WaitsRead
You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.
Tom BrokawRead
I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life: It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
John Forbes NashRead
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard. I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
J. K. RowlingRead
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.
Jeanette WintersonRead
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.
Victor HugoRead