E. E. Cummings Quotes

• Lovers alone wear sunlight.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Poetry

• May came home with a smooth round stone
  as small as a world and as large as alone.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Nature

  Tags in Thank, Amazing

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

  E. E. Cummings

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  Tags in Stars, Bird

• To be nobody but
  yourself in a world
  which is doing its best day and night to make you like
  everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
  which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• may my heart always be open to little / birds who are the secrets of living

  E. E. Cummings

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Teen, Really

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

  E. E. Cummings

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  To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  E. E. Cummings

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  Tags in First Step, Destroy

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Property, Mind

• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Imagination, Living

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poet, Made

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Buried, Imagination

• It takes three to make a child.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Takes

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Far

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Insulting, Dislike

• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Careful

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in World

• Nothing recedes like progress.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Recedes

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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