E. E. Cummings Quotes

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

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• Twice I have lived forever in a smile.

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

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

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

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• Lovers alone wear sunlight.

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• 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.

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

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

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• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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• Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

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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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