E. E. Cummings Quotes

• 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

• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in First Step, Destroy

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in God, Laughter, Life, Spirituality

  Tags in Wasted

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Property, Mind

• Nothing recedes like progress.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Recedes

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Buried, Imagination

• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Fate, Wisdom

  Tags in Kisses

• It takes three to make a child.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Takes

• 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

• 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

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Stars, Bird

• 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

  Topics in Love

  Tags in New, Body

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Tags in Because, Pawn

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Than, Careful

• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  E. E. Cummings

  Tags in Merely, Pilgrim

• 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

  Tags in May, Faults

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

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Another, Answer, Ask

• 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.

  E. E. Cummings

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Away, Wind

• A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

  E. E. Cummings

  Tags in Except, Sat

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.

Related Authors

• Laura Riding
• Gertrude Stein
• José María Arguedas
• Charles de Lint
• Charles F. Lummis
• Joseph Addison
• Samuel Coleridge
• Rachel Field
• Charlotte Bronte
• Abul Ala Al Maarri

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 27th December

Births

• 1946 - Polly Toynbee
• 1930 - Wilfrid Sheed
• 1943 - Martha Shelley
• 1955 - Barbara Olson
• 1930 - Meg Greenfield

Deaths

• 2003 - Alan Bates
• 1985 - Potter Stewart
• 1938 - Zona Gale
• 1994 - Marjorie Joyner