E.E. Cummings Quotes

i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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

to hell with literaturewe want something redblooded

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because

Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as i’m to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

Until they rip us apart, and even then, I'll fight.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

twice I have lived forever in a smile

I thank You God for this most 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.

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

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

for whenever men are right they are not young

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

a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

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.

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

You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.

I am an i poet.

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.

for every mile the feet gothe heart goes nine

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call alive individual fools

I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home . . . lovers alone wear sunlight.

something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violetsdandelionsAnd the big bullying daisies through the field wonderfulwith eyes a little sorryAnother comes also picking flowers

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

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.

love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark

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.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.