The world of e e cummings quotes. Here you will find a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes from one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Edward estlin cummings was an american poet, painter, author and playwright who wrote some of the most beautiful and influential poetry of the modern era.
His works often explored the beauty of nature and the power of words. So, delve into this collection of e e cummings quotes and find motivation and solace in his words.
Famous E. E. Cummings Quotes
“A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “I spill my bright incalculable soul.” -E. E. Cummings.
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🍁 “Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Ye! the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “The Symbol of all Art is the Prism.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “I don’t like the memories because the tears come easily.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Simple people, people who don’t exist, prefer things which don’t exist, simple things.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.” -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.
🍁 “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” -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.
🍁 “When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.” -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.
🍁 “Dog hates mouse and worships “cat”, mouse despises “cat” and hates dog, “cat” hates no one and loves mouse.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “The eyes of my eyes are opened.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)”
🍁 “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” -E. E. Cummings.
E. E. Cummings Quotes About Love
🍁 “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” -E. E. Cummings.
“Only by you my heart always moves.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “When Souls are outlawed, Hearts are sick, Hearts being sick, Minds nothing can.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Lady, I will touch you with my mind.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Before leaving my room I turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear;” -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 being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Lovers alone wear sunlight.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Be of love a little more careful than of anything.” -E. E. Cummings.
E. E. Cummings Quotes About Life
🍁 “Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go”. -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Whiter than lilies which are born and cease for being whiter than this world.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Really unreal world, will you perhaps do/the breathing for me while I am away?” -E. E. Cummings.
“Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” -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.
🍁 “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” -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.
🍁”It’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous… And they talk of dying!” -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.
🍁 “I shall imagine life is not worth dying, if (and when) roses complain their beauties are in vain”. -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Very luckily for you and me, the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on ‘good’ and ‘bad’ alike.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.” -E. E. Cummings.
E. Cummings Poetry Quotes
🍁 “Poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.” -E. E. Cummings.
“In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.” -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.
🍁 “As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine.” -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.
Iconic E. E. Cummings Quotes
🍁 “The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. ” -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.
🍁 “She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”Treat a man like dirt-he produces flower.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”If there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have one.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Unlove’s the heavenless hell and the homeless home.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁”I think, I too, have known autumn too long.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.” -E. E. Cummings.
🍁 “What concerns me fundamentally is a meteoric burlesk melodrama.” -E. E. Cummings.
“Life included, this Play isn’t ‘about,’ it simply is. Don’t try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you.” -E. E. Cummings.
Final Thoughts
E e cummings was a remarkably talented poet who used his words to create a unique style of literature that was admired by generations of readers. His quotes are timeless and can be used to inspire and uplift us in times of need. His words offer us a glimpse into the creative and imaginative mind of an artist who was truly ahead of his time.