E. E. Cummings 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. View quote
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. View quote
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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. View quote
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. View quote
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. View quote
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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. View quote
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. View quote
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. View quote
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive. View quote
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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. View quote
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life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. View quote
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. View quote
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing. View quote
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything. View quote
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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. View quote
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. View quote
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Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. View quote
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it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you. View quote
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