16 Quotes & Sayings By E E Cummings

e. e. cummings is a poet, translator, and literary critic from the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 21, 1894 Read more

Cumming's first book of poetry was the privately printed Egoist in April 1914. In 1915, he joined the staff of Poetry magazine and published his first collection of poems, The Enormous Room (1917). Later that year Cumming married Victoria Mann and moved to New York City with her.

His poems were included in several editions of The Best American Poems: 1915–1917 and The Best American Poems: 1923–1924 and he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1924 for "The Accident."

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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. E. E. Cummings
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. E. E. Cummings
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Unlove's the heavenless hell and homeless home .. . lovers alone wear sunlight. E. E. Cummings
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. E. E. Cummings
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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
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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
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything. E. E. Cummings
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. E. E. Cummings
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. E. E. Cummings
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. E. E. Cummings
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. E. E. Cummings
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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
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. E. E. Cummings
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing. E. E. Cummings