Quotes About Cummings

#1. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.

Spencer Gordon

#2. Her handwriting was curious - small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

Erich Segal

#3. The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

David Bowie

#4. Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

Billy Collins

#5. The life of Edward Estlin Cummings began with a childhood in Cambridge, Mass., that he described as happy, but he struggled in both his artistic and romantic exploits against the piousness of his father, an esteemed Harvard professor.

Billy Collins

#6. Whitney Cummings is one of the hardest working people I know, and she's very motivated.

Chris D'Elia

#7. Your security and love of life don't depend on the presence of another, but only on yourself, your chosen work, and your developing identity. Then you can safely choose to enrich your life by marrying another person, and not, as e e cummings says, until.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.

Randy Bachman

#9. (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) Edward Estlin Cummings

E. E. Cummings

#10. I hope that most people at this point in time realize that Prince is one of the great poets of our time. I didn't say songwriter - I said poet. Prince is the closest thing we have to e. e. cummings and people are so stupid because they don't come in here and buy books of Prince poems. It

Caroline Kepnes

#11. Because of his unusual way of handling language, Cummings had to travel a long road from the time his early books were ridiculed for their eccentricity to the point at which, with Robert Frost, he was one of the two most popular poets in America.

E. E. Cummings

#12. Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.

Billy Collins

#13. I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

Mae Whitman

#14. I carry your heart (i carry it in my heart) E. E. Cummings

Kimberly McCreight

#15. Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

John Green

#16. Somebody said, 'Get your agent to call the new Bob Cummings show. They're looking for a funny lady.' Within three hours, I had the job. That was January 1955. I had such fun with that show.

Ann B. Davis

#17. My background with Cummings was rehearse, rehearse, rehearse, but Tuesday liked to walk in and do the scene. I must say that she was really wonderful. Aggravating, but wonderful.

Dwayne Hickman

#18. When I took my poetry class in school. I read an e. e. cummings poem. I don't mind eels except how they feels and maybe as meals. I knew there was hope for me.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#19. I have often been told that I have many of the same mannerisms as Jack Benny and certainly Bob Cummings.

Dwayne Hickman

#20. . . . doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?

George Grossmith

#21. I have worked closely with my Democratic allies. Elijah Cummings is a good friend.

Jason Chaffetz

#22. I was always a huge fan of E. E. Cummings. He did a series of lectures at Harvard or Princeton, and they were recorded. And they were incredibly moving.

Steve Martin

#23. Life is not a paragraph, and death is no parenthesis.

(This is a reference to an E.E. Cummings poem within the author's work)

Paula Hawkins

#24. I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.

Pete Wentz

#25. Jim Cummings, Whoopie Goldberg & Cheech Marin make up this famous Disney threesome.

Alex Trebek

#26. Jeff Ross has been roasting people since Whitney Cummings was nothing but a glint in the eye of the man who raped her mother.

Anthony Jeselnik

#27. and kisses are a better fate than wisdom - e. e. cummings, "since feeling is first

Scott Westerfeld

#28. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

Jim Cummings

#29. I fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

E. E. Cummings

#30. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. E. Cummings

#31. Sterling Holloway, the actor who had originally voiced Pooh, decided to retire in the mid-1980s. Disney decided that they wanted to continue this character with their 'New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' TV series.

Jim Cummings

#32. The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

E. E. Cummings

#33. I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

Jim Cummings

#34. Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

Quinn Cummings

#35. It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

#36. So don't come in here acting like you matter. You left and took your high horse with you," he takes another step in my direction. My throat constricts.
He's not finished, "And you show up here at my club thinking you can just waltz right in and have a say? No bitch.

Bink Cummings

#37. When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism.

Whitney Cummings

#38. One pierced moment whiter than the rest
-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

E. E. Cummings

#39. O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

E. E. Cummings

#40. Homeschooling will certainly produce some socially awkward adults, but the odds are good they would have been just as quirky had they spent twelve years raising their hand for permission to go to the bathroom.

Quinn Cummings

#41. 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

#42. The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

#43. Little known Max fact: I invented the word TWIRGIN (a Twitter virgin).

Max Cummings

#44. 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

#45. Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything

E. E. Cummings

#46. Fuck you."
"Promise?

Carole Cummings

#47. The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

E. E. Cummings

#48. 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

#49. If 180 million people want to be undead, that's their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

E. E. Cummings

#50. I want to take it back," Streeter whispered. Elvid favored him with a stony smile that revealed a jutting ring of cannibal teeth. "You can't," he said. That was in August of 2001, less than a month before the fall of the Towers.

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

#51. Unless you love someone nothing makes sense.

E. E. Cummings

#52. 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

#53. Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

#54. A poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

E. E. Cummings

#55. We're anything brighter than even the sun

E. E. Cummings

#56. I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

E. E. Cummings

#57. Over eight hundred US troops died in Iraq. Bad luck for those boys and girls.

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

#58. To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

#59. Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

E. E. Cummings

#60. John Fiedler's voice was kind of like the wind blowing through tall grass. It sounded homey and it sounded comforting.

Jim Cummings

#61. i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air

E. E. Cummings

#62. And death i think is no parenthesis.

E. E. Cummings

#63. When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man.

E. E. Cummings

#64. I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

#65. When you break free of your reef and drift with the current, you see that nothing has stayed still except you - everything is different.

Shane Jiraiya Cummings

#66. Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

#67. I shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

E. E. Cummings

#68. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.

E. E. Cummings

#69. African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

Elijah Cummings

#70. The whole truth ...
sings only -and all lovers are the song

E. E. Cummings

#71. Good evening, America. I'm a woman, and welcome to The Late Late Show.

Whitney Cummings

#72. Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

E. E. Cummings

#73. III Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

E. E. Cummings

#74. Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

E. E. Cummings

#75. Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

E. E. Cummings

#76. 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

#77. I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

Whitney Cummings

#78. Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

#79. Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore.

Jim Cummings

#80. Annie died the other day
never was there such a lay
whom,among her dollies,dad
first("don't tell your mother")had

E. E. Cummings

#81. 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

#82. I'm the one who's dating the craft-service guy instead of the producer. Plus, if a producer is going to date a hot young thing, I'm probably not the first person on their list - the weird, quirky, funny girl.

Whitney Cummings

#83. I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Jim Cummings

#84. If you like my poems let them
walk in the evening, a little behind you

E. E. Cummings

#85. A wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

#86. May I be I is the only prayer
not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

E. E. Cummings

#87. There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

E. E. Cummings

#88. I loved Ray from 'The Princess and the Frog.' He was my guy. There was no Ray before me, so there's a level of satisfaction there.

Jim Cummings

#89. 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

#90. Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

#91. And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

E. E. Cummings

#92. It was deflating to realize how much my own family's quality of life might improve if I replaced myself with a Fundamentalist stay-at-home daughter.

Quinn Cummings

#93. The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

E. E. Cummings

#94. The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Elijah Cummings

#95. You've invented your own way of being, and perhaps it might be 'odd' to one who has no idea of the life you've led, but to one who does ... " Brayden paused, shrugged. "To one who does, it's ... it's ... I haven't got a word. It's astounding

Carole Cummings

#96. So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

E. E. Cummings

#97. It's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

E. E. Cummings

#98. How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

E. E. Cummings

#99. So, when kiss Spring comes
we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss
lips because tic clocks tock don't make
a toctic difference
to kisskiss you and to
kiss me.

E. E. Cummings

#100. I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness

E. E. Cummings