A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
e. e. cummings

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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

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


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

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings

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

Nothing recedes like progress.
e. e. cummings