e. e. cummings Quotes

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.
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Best, Yourself, Fight

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.
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Nature, God, Amazing

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Teen, Courage, Become

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Laughter, Days, Wasted

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Experience, Human, Once

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Love, Hard, Humanity

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.
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Mistakes, May, America

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Life, Dead, Alive

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.
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Rain, Long, Away

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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Valentine's Day, Wisdom, Fate

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Learning, Dance, Learn

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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Love, Someone, Nothing

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Everyone, Except, Politician

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Good, Hell, Universe

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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Beautiful, Question, Answer

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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Mind, Somebody, Private

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Dance, Learn, Rather

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Black, Him, Individual

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Knowledge, Dead, Word

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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Imagination, Living, Imagine

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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Body, Quite, Muscles

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Step, Creation, Destroy

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 14, 1894

Died: September 3, 1962

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