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e. e. cummings

15 quotes

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."

“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

— e. e. cummings

Wisdom

All Quotes by e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings

Imagination

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

— e. e. cummings

Imagination

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

— e. e. cummings

Love

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

— e. e. cummings

Nature

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

— e. e. cummings

Love

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

— e. e. cummings

Courage

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

— e. e. cummings

Good

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

— e. e. cummings

Learning

“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

“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

“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

Best

“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

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

— e. e. cummings

Experience