e. e. cummings's Quotes

It takes three to make a child.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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.

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.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.