Quotes by e. e. cummings

About e. e. cummings:

Edward Estlin Cummings is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature.
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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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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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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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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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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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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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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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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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Author Bio

  • Namee. e. cummings
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • Aliasese. e. cummings; Edward Estlin Cummings; E. Estlin Cummings
  • BornOctober 14, 1894
  • DiedSeptember 3, 1962
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Painter; Playwright; Writer; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Bollingen Prize; Shelley Memorial Award