Quotes by E. E. Cummings

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.

— E. E. Cummings

Hope

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

Life

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

— E. E. Cummings

Courage

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Life

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

— E. E. Cummings

Education

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

— E. E. Cummings

Life

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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Wisdom

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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Love

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Education

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

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Education

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Love

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

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

— E. E. Cummings

Life

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

— E. E. Cummings

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.

— E. E. Cummings

Wisdom

Nothing recedes like progress.

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Wisdom

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

— E. E. Cummings

Life