E. E. Cummings Quotes

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Life,for eternal us,is now

hugest whole creation may be less incalculable than a single kiss

my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die. Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who;

unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

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

Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things. "Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

no sunbeam ever lies

Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.