E. E. Cummings Quotes

seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here

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.

nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel ... the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself. 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.

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

The whole truth... sings only —and all lovers are the song

lovers alone wear sunlight

unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home

each ignorant gladness —unteaches what despair preaches

dreamtree,truthtree tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial merely)existence,all when may not measure a now of your treasure

exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel

a million thousand hundred nothings seem —we are himself's own self;his very him

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all)

though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain) will only smile

no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love —human one mortally immortal i can turn immense all time's because to why