e. e. cummings Quotes
Born: October 14, 1894
E. E. Cummings, the revolutionary poet and painter, defied convention with every lowercase letter and fractured line. His work is a visceral call to action: a fierce insistence on being authentically, messily alive. Cummings championed the individual’s struggle against the numbing forces of conformity, urging us to feel deeply, dare greatly, and transform our singular, fleeting existence into art. His quotes resonate because they strip motivation down to its rawest essence—not as a distant goal, but as the immediate, courageous act of becoming oneself. His legacy is a permission slip to be brave, to move, and to say yes to the world.
e. e. cummings Quotes (32)
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— 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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
— E. E. Cummings"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."
— 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"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
— E. E. Cummings"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
— E. E. Cummings"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."
— E. E. Cummings"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."
— E. E. Cummings"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."
— E. E. Cummings"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."
— E. E. Cummings"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"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."
— E. E. Cummings"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
— E. E. Cummings"It takes three to make a child."
— E. E. Cummings"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink."
— E. E. Cummings"The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful."
— E. E. Cummings"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."
— 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"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."
— E. E. Cummings"Nothing recedes like progress."
— E. E. Cummings"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."
— E. E. Cummings"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."
— E. E. Cummings"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."
— 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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
— E. E. Cummings"At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks."
— E. E. Cummings"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"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'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."
— E. E. Cummings