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E. E. Cummings Quotes (135 quotes)

“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

“I thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”
―E. E. Cummings

Source/Notes:
This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled i thank you God. - XAIPE (1950)

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
―E. E. Cummings

“When god decided to invent everything he took one breath bigger than a circus tent and everything began.”
―E. E. Cummings

“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud. And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.”
―E. E. Cummings

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
―E. E. Cummings

“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.”
―E. E. Cummings

Source/Notes:
1 x 1 (1944)

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”
―E. E. Cummings

“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...”
―E. E. Cummings

Source/Notes:
being to timelessness as it's to time (1958)

“May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's Sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young, and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile.”
―E. E. Cummings

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”
―E. E. Cummings

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
―E. E. Cummings

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E. E. Cummings

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E. E. Cummings

Born: October 14, 1894

Died: September 3, 1962 (aged 67)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Bio: Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. 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.

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