My Quote to Live By

Daily writing prompt

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

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Yes, oddly I do have a quote that I try to live my life by and think of often. It is “Love is a place. Yes is a world.” This is inscribed on the inside of a little silver bracelet that I wear almost every day.

These are the first two lines in an E.E. Cummings poem called Love is a Place. Here is the entire poem.

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

I carry a handwritten copy of the whole poem in my wallet. It doesn’t describe my life, just my aspirations.

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E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems 1904-1962, 1961 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust, Liveright Publishing Corporation