E. E. Cummings Quotes

• who knows if the moon’s a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky—filled with pretty people?

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it’s there and sitting down on it.

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• spring when the world is puddle wonderful.

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• the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

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• The tall, impossibly tall, incomparably tall, city shoulderingly upwards into hard sunlight leaned a little through the octaves of its parallel edges, leaningly strode upwards into firm, hard, snowy sunlight; the noises of America nearingly throbbed with smokes and hurrying dots which are men and which are women and which are things new and curious and hard and strange  and vibrant and immense, lifting with a great ondulous stride firmly into immortal sunlight…

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• To create is first of all to destroy…there is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby  we are taught to see and imitate on canvas and in stone and by words this so-called world) are entirely and thoroughly and perfectly annihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minute bit of purely personal Feeling. Which minute bit is  Art.

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• Subconsciously every one was, of course, fearful that he himself would go nuts—everyone with the exception of those who had already gone nuts, who were in the wholly pleasant situation of having no fear.

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• He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.

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• Since the thing perhaps is
  to eat flowers and not to be afraid.

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• Twice I have lived forever in a smile.

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  For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

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• Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

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• To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.

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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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  Your head is a living forest full of song birds.

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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…

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• Life’s not a paragraph And death I think is no parenthesis.

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• Trust your heart, if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward.

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• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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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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E. E. Cummings (66)

Birth:	14th October, 1894
Death:	3rd September, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century poetry.

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