E. E. Cummings Quotes
Edward Estlin Cummings, often styled as E. E. Cummings, was born on the 14th of October, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
E. E. Cummings was a 20th-century poet and novelist known for his innovations in style and structure. E. E. Cummings wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. He died on the 3rd of September, 1962 in The Memorial Hospital at North Conway, New Hampshire.
Below, we have compiled an array of popular E. E. Cummings quotes and sayings.
60 E. E. Cummings Quotes About Life & Love
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 Quote
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit― E.E. Cummings Quote
She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still― E.E. Cummings Quote
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough― E.E. Cummings Quote
Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.― E.E. Cummings Quote
…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 Quote
We are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
And the coolness of your smile is stirring of birds between my arms― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
Down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
It’s no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.― E.E. Cummings Quote
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.― E.E. Cummings Quote
When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because― E.E. Cummings Quote
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.― E.E. Cummings Quote
For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you― E.E. Cummings Quote
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
May came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses― E.E. Cummings Quote
May I be I is the only prayer–not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.― E.E. Cummings Quote
You shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark― E.E. Cummings Quote
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― E.E. Cummings Quote
Nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility― E.E. Cummings Quote
In the street of the sky night walks scattering poems― E.E. Cummings Quote
The moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy― E.E. Cummings Quote
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects― E.E. Cummings Quote
Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Here’s to opening and upward… and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Feeling is first,― E.E. Cummings Quote
Our can’ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more― E.E. Cummings Quote
…A good Book, has no Ending…― E.E. Cummings Quote
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.― E.E. Cummings Quote
If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Deeds cannot dream what dreams can do― E.E. Cummings Quote
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Your homecoming will be my homecoming― E.E. Cummings Quote
Seeker Of Truth seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here― E.E. Cummings Quote
Who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you― E.E. Cummings Quote
You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.― E.E. Cummings Quote
May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living― E.E. Cummings Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote
30 Short E.E. Cummings Quotes
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E.E. Cummings Quote
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Listen: there’s a hell of a good universe next door; let’s go― E.E. Cummings Quote
Life’s not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis― E.E. Cummings Quote
The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses― E.E. Cummings Quote
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands― E.E. Cummings Quote
Love is the whole and more than all.― E.E. Cummings Quote
I carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)― E.E. Cummings Quote
Most people are perfectly afraid of silence― E.E. Cummings Quote
Twice I have lived forever in a smile― E.E. Cummings Quote
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Only by you my heart always moves.― E.E. Cummings Quote
We can never be born enough.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Great men burn bridges before they come to them― E.E. Cummings Quote
Love is the every only god― E.E. Cummings Quote
Love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one― E.E. Cummings Quote
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise― E.E. Cummings Quote
Be of love(a little) More careful Than everything― E.E. Cummings Quote
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.― E.E. Cummings Quote
His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine― E.E. Cummings Quote
Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid― E.E. Cummings Quote
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.― E.E. Cummings Quote
One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.― E.E. Cummings Quote
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.― E.E. Cummings Quote
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Lovers alone wear sunlight.― E.E. Cummings Quote
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.― E.E. Cummings Quote