E.E. Cummings
Poet
1894-10-14
Quotes by E.E. Cummings
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trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
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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.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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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.
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Must's a schoolroom in the month of may
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To be nobody-but-myself-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.
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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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.
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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 everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes ...
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Listen, there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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