Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
- e. e. cummings
Beautiful, Question, Always, Answer
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
- e. e. cummings
Children, Fathers, Least, Clocks
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
- e. e. cummings
Better, Valentine's Day, Kisses
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, Doing, Everybody, Never Stop
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
- e. e. cummings
Inspirational, Curiosity, Delight
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
Rain, Sky, Think, Wind
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
Always, Move, Still, Denied
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e. e. cummings
Living, Income, May, Apart
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
- e. e. cummings
First Step, Destroy, Always, Creation
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Teen, Grow, Grow Up, Become
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
- e. e. cummings
Love, I Love You, Buy, Love You
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
- e. e. cummings
Imagination, Living, Imagine, Living Thing
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
- e. e. cummings
Learning, Learn, Rather, Ten
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e. e. cummings
Humor, Wasted, Most, Laughter
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
Inspirational, Sky, Which, Most Amazing
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
New, More, Like, Muscles
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
- e. e. cummings
Learn, Teach, Rather, Dance
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
- e. e. cummings
Making, Obsessed, Very, Whom
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
- e. e. cummings
Mind, Private Property, His, Instant
It takes three to make a child.
- e. e. cummings
Child, Three, Make, Takes
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
- e. e. cummings
White, Individual, Like, Insulting
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
- e. e. cummings
Door, Universe, Next, Listen
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
- e. e. cummings
Politician, Everyone, Which, Sat
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
- e. e. cummings
Knowledge, Dead, Polite, Buried
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
- e. e. cummings
Love, Someone, Unless, Sense
Nothing recedes like progress.
- e. e. cummings
Nothing, Like, Progress
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
- e. e. cummings
Life, Alive, Being, Dead
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
- e. e. cummings
Love, More, Than, Careful
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
- e. e. cummings
World, Nature
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