Top 100 Quotes About E E Cummings: Famous Quotes & Sayings About E E 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. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Kimberly McCreight

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

John Green

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Scott Westerfeld

#14. 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

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

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

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#17. It takes three to make a child.

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

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

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#20. 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.

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

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#22. 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'.

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

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#24. 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

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#25. I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

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

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#27. Unless you love someone nothing makes sense.

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#28. 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.

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

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#30. 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

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

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

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#33. 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

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

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#35. 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

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#36. And death i think is no parenthesis.

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

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

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#39. Nothing recedes like progress.

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#40. 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

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#41. 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.

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

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

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#44. 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

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#45. 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.

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

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#47. 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

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#48. Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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

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#50. 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 ...

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

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#52. 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.

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

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

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#55. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#62. 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.

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

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#64. What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May

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#65. The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

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#66. Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

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#67. All nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live

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#68. may I be I is the only prayer

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#69. 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.

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

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#71. Time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just so long and long enough

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#72. Goddamn everything but the circus

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#73. Yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)

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#74. Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

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#75. A total stranger one black day
knocked living the hell out of me-
who found forgiveness hard because
my(as it happened)self he was
-but now that fiend and i are such
immortal friends the other's each

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#76. I remember we all cried like the Missouri
when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because
somebody pressed a button
(and down went
my uncle
Sol
and started a worm farm)

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#77. Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

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#78. Tumbling-hair
picker of buttercups
violets
dandelions
And the big bullying daisies
through the field wonderful
with eyes a little sorry
Another comes
also picking flowers

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#79. a billion brains may coax undeath
from fancied fact and spaceful time--
no heart can leap, no soul can breathe
but by the sizeless truth of a dream
whose sleep is the sky and the earth and the sea
For love are in you am in i are in we

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#80. What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

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#81. Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile, shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you, that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite ease the poem which i do not write.

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