Quotes by 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.

— E. E. Cummings

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

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Courage

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

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Education

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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Love

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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Education

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

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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

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Education

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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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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Love

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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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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Love

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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Nothing recedes like progress.

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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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