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
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
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
e. e. cummings
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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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
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings
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
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.
e. e. cummings
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings
It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings
The earth laughs in flowers.
e. e. cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e. e. cummings
The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
e. e. cummings
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings
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
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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Type:
Poet
Date of Birth:
1894-10-14
Year of Death:
1962
Nationality:
American |
