E. E. Cummings Quotes

Powerful E. E. Cummings for Daily Growth

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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Beautiful, Question, Always, Answer

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

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Children, Fathers, Least, Clocks

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Always, Move, Still, Denied

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

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Living, Income, May, Apart

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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First Step, Destroy, Always, Creation

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

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Teen, Grow, Grow Up, Become

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

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Love, I Love You, Buy, Love You

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Imagination, Living, Imagine, Living Thing

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

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Learning, Learn, Rather, Ten

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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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.

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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.

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New, More, Like, Muscles

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

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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.

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Making, Obsessed, Very, Whom

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

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Mind, Private Property, His, Instant

It takes three to make a child.

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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.

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White, Individual, Like, Insulting

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

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Door, Universe, Next, Listen

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

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Politician, Everyone, Which, Sat

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

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Knowledge, Dead, Polite, Buried

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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Love, Someone, Unless, Sense

Nothing recedes like progress.

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Nothing, Like, Progress

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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Life, Alive, Being, Dead

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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Love, More, Than, Careful

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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World, Nature

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