E. E. Cummings Quotes

American author (1894–1962)

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Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962) was an American poet. Because of the typography used in many of his works it has become a widespread tradition for his name to be presented in lower case as e. e. cummings, though he himself continued to use uppercase letters in signing his own name.

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Birth Name: Edward Estlin Cummings

Alternative Names: e. e. cummings • E. Estlin Cummings • e e cummings • EE cummings • Edward Eatlin Cummings

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

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

—when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

when you confuse art with propaganda,you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you(or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom". You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny... all over this socalled world,hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.

completely dare be beautiful

who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky — filled with pretty people?
( and if you and I should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where

always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves

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

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

who knows if the moon's
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?

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

plato told him:he couldn't believe it(jesus</p>told him;he wouldn't believe
itlao tsze certainly told him,and general
(yes mam) sherman; and even
(believe it
or not)you told him:i told him;we told him
(he didn't believe it,no sir)

Love is the whole and more than all.

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry — the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

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

And death i think is no parenthesis

I love you much
most beautiful darling
more than anyone on the earth
and I like you better
than everything in the sky.

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....