stumble upon....

this past weekend, in a defiant act, i decided to read something i actually enjoy (or, in other words, not the grotesquely large, red, dictionary-like casebooks i'm usually found with) and i found two things i like for the price of one.  i read the book Charlie St. Cloud, upon which the movie is based.  not only did i like the book (zac efron's face on the cover will surely entice you to open it) but i really enjoyed the oft-repeated quote,

trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward) 

here is the full text of the e.e. cummings poem.  i'm so glad i stumbled upon this quote and googled it, because i have been rewarded with a new favorite poet.  the theme of the poem is also fitting, when i feel like every day is a losing battle here at school. 

dive for dreams
dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
silently if, out of not knowable
silently if, out of not knowable
night's utmost nothing,wanders a little guess
(only which is this world)more my life does
not leap than with the mystery your smile
sings or if(spiralling as luminous
they climb oblivion)voices who are dreams,
less into heaven certainly earth swims
than each my deeper death becomes your kiss
losing through you what seemed myself,i find
selves unimaginably mine;beyond
sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
-you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars