e. e. cummings famous quotes

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

#Dance #Teacher #Stars

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Graduation

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
-- e. e. cummings

#Life #Imagination #Imagine

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

#Life #Confidence #Believe

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

#Love #Stars #Heart

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
-- e. e. cummings

#Winter #White #Snow

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
-- e. e. cummings

#Romantic #Valentines Day #Fate

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Motivational #Birthday

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

#Stars #Moon #Light

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

#Inspirational #Believe #Thinking

Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
-- e. e. cummings

#Stars #Ocean #Flower

love is the every only god
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Life #Love Is

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

#Inspirational #Ocean #Lakes

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
-- e. e. cummings

#Love

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
-- e. e. cummings

#Heart #Bird #Secret

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
-- e. e. cummings

#Eye #Silence #Gestures

The eyes of my eyes are opened.
-- e. e. cummings

#Eye

Love is the whole and more than all.
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Romantic #Romance

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
-- e. e. cummings

#Science #Doors #Next

There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort - things which are always inside of us and in fact are us and which consequently will not be pushed off or away where we can begin thinking about them - are no longer things; they, and the us which they are, equals A Verb; an IS.
-- e. e. cummings

#Life #Believe #Simple

most people are perfectly afraid of silence
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #People #Silence

We can never be born enough.
-- e. e. cummings

#Enough #Born

a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair
-- e. e. cummings

#Hate #Differences #Hair

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
-- e. e. cummings

#People #Funeral #Want

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
-- e. e. cummings

#Being Yourself #Self Esteem #Challenges

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
-- e. e. cummings

#Fate #Destiny #Alive

Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
-- e. e. cummings

#Miracle #Feels

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
-- e. e. cummings

#Reality #Firsts #Steps

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine
-- e. e. cummings

#Heart #Wine #Water

Only by you my heart always moves.
-- e. e. cummings

#Moving #Heart #My Heart

twice I have lived forever in a smile
-- e. e. cummings

#Forever

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.
-- e. e. cummings

#Art #Light #White

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

#Mystery

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Dream #Deeds

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening
-- e. e. cummings

#Moon #Orange #Evening

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 (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
-- e. e. cummings

#Dream #Eye #Gay

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
-- e. e. cummings

#Writing #Poetry #Matter

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.
-- e. e. cummings

#Life #Beautiful #Wise

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
-- e. e. cummings

#Men #Political #Arses

Lovers alone wear sunlight.
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Life #Sunlight

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Romantic Love #Littles

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

#Inspirational #Life #Trust

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
-- e. e. cummings

#Summer #Nature #Spring

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

#Inspirational #Life #Thank You

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
-- e. e. cummings

#Rain #Hands

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

#Inspiring #Rain #Fall

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
-- e. e. cummings

#Life #Beautiful #Death

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

#Sarcastic #Mistake #Moving

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
-- e. e. cummings

#Firsts #Steps #Creation

Tomorrow is our permanent address.
-- e. e. cummings

#Future #Addresses #Tomorrow

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

#Philosophy #Medicine #Soma

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Beautiful

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Thinking #Life And Death

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- e. e. cummings

#Witty #Art #Powerful

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

#Love #Humanity #Pawns

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
-- e. e. cummings

#Bird #Songbirds #Forests

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
-- e. e. cummings

#Artist #Men #Feels

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Eye #Voice

...and down they forgot as up they grew.
-- e. e. cummings

#Grew

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
-- e. e. cummings

#Tired #Thinking #Littles

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

#Imagination #Buried #Polite

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Opposites #Voice

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- e. e. cummings

#Inspirational #Funny #Life

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

#Love #Life #Uplifting

You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
-- e. e. cummings

#Stars #Moon #Sun

I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.
-- e. e. cummings

#Believe #Thinking #Artist

One's not half of two; two are halves of one.
-- e. e. cummings

#Two #Half

As small as a world as large as alone.
-- e. e. cummings

#World

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

#Travel #Memorable #Three

You and I are more than you and I because it's we.
-- e. e. cummings

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
-- e. e. cummings

#Hands #Despair #Mountain

Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
-- e. e. cummings

#Love #Sweet #Viva

It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
-- e. e. cummings

#Beautiful #Mistake #Two

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
-- e. e. cummings

#Spring #Fall #4th Of July

i have found what you are like the rain (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club of the wind and swirled justly souls of flower strike the air in utterable coolness deeds of gren thrilling light with thinned newfragile yellows lurch and.press --in the woods which stutter and sing And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms;but i should rather than anything have(almost when hugeness will shut quietly)almost, your kiss
-- e. e. cummings

#Rain #Flower #Sleep

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
-- e. e. cummings

#Girl #Party #Men

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
-- e. e. cummings

#Moon #Sun

What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
-- e. e. cummings

#Dream #Two #Forever