E. E. Cummings quotes

E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright, renowned for his innovative use of language and form. His poems are famous for their experimental punctuation, unique syntax, and visual arrangements on the page. He remains one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century poetry. Here are 232 of his quotes:

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. (E. E. Cummings)

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. (E. E. Cummings)

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis.

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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. (E. E. Cummings)

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.

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E. E. Cummings

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 14, 1894
Died: September 3, 1962
Quotes count: 232
Wikipedia: E. E. Cummings

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