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e. e. cummings

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Who is e. e. cummings? The quotes below are the best introduction we can offer. Their thinking spans from Love to Nature, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 21 of e. e. cummings's most memorable quotes, ranging across Love, Nature, Imagination, Wisdom, and Valentinesday. Among their most shared lines: "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance."

“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”

— e. e. cummings

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All Quotes by e. e. cummings

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”

— e. e. cummings

Imagination

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— e. e. cummings

Courage

“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

Amazing

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

— e. e. cummings

Experience

“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

— e. e. cummings

Intelligence

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

— e. e. cummings

Wisdom

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.”

— e. e. cummings

Love

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

— e. e. cummings

Nature

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

— e. e. cummings

Learning

“Be of love a little more careful than of anything.”

— e. e. cummings

Love

“Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”

— e. e. cummings

Good

“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”

— e. e. cummings

Time

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”

— e. e. cummings

Life

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”

— e. e. cummings

Imagination

“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

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