Edward Estlin “E. E.” Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, as he is attributed in many of his published works, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. Profoundly inspirational E. E. Cummings quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
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Famous E. E. Cummings 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
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e. e. Cummings
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive. E. E. Cummings
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. e. e. Cummings
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. E.E. Cummings
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go. e. e. Cummings
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E.E. Cummings
To destroy is always the first step in any creation. e. e. Cummings
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself. e.e. cummings
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. e. e. Cummings
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. 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
Lovers alone wear sunlight. E.E. Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. e. e. Cummings
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense. E.E Cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. Cummings
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. 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
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches. E.E. Cummings
It takes three to make a child. e. e. Cummings
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying anywhere but here. E.E. Cummings
Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. 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
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. e. e. Cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E.E. Cummings
To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. e. e. Cummings
The world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful. e. e. Cummings
Be of love a little more careful than of anything. e. e. Cummings
One’s not half of two; two are halves of one. E.E. Cummings
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. 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
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. e. e. Cummings
Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel the moment you feel, you’re 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’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. e. e. Cummings
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again. E.E. Cummings
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
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. E.E. Cummings
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.e. e. Cummings
Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. e.e. cummings
Nothing recedes like progress. e. e. Cummings
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. 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
Love is the whole and more than all. E.E. Cummings
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little somebody who is obsessed by Making. e. e. Cummings
You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing. E.E. Cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise. E.E. Cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. E. Cummings
And the coolness of your smile is stirring of birds between my arms. E. E. Cummings
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied America is always on the move. E. E. Cummings
A bouquet of clumsy words you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say just wondering when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars. Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go. e.e. cummings
When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because. E. E. Cummings
That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies. e.e. cummings
It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake. E. E. Cummings
I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear. And whatever is done by only me is your doing. I fear no fate for you are my fate, I want no world cause you are my world. Here is the deepest secret no one knows. Here is the root of root and bud of bud the sky of the sky of the tree of life. Which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. It’s the wonder that keeps the stars apart. E.E. Cummings
To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. E. E. Cummings
Damn everything but the circus! damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won’t get into the circle, that won’t enjoy. That won’t throw it’s heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence. E.E. Cummings
Dog hates mouse and worships cat, mouse despises cat and hates dog, cat hates no one and loves mouse. E. E. Cummings
If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. e.e. cummings
The eyes of my eyes are opened. E. E. Cummings
