e.e. cummings

Poet American 1894 – 1962

American experimental poet known for unconventional syntax.

95 quotes

"Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting"
Life
"Suppose living is just you and me"
Love
"Bloom where you are planted"
"I thank you God for this most amazing day"
Gratitude
"Twilight just beyond the boundary of becoming someone"
Change
"This world of ours needs such people as you and me"
Hope
"If there are any heavens my mother will by herself have"
Family
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on"
Dreams
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat"
Politics
"War is the continuation of politics by other means enacted by fools"
War
"Reason lays down its arms"
Philosophy
"Between you and me let there be now and always only this always"
Love
"I want to be in your mind"
Love
"Somebody knew me"
Friendship
"Life is getting better and better"
"Swim so deep that it hurts less"
Wisdom
"Really unreal world made of unreal really people"
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character"
Dreams
"Age is not how old you are but what you choose to become"
Time
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it"
Truth
"Perhaps it is to teach us how to live that all men die"
Death
"The world is made of windows"
"Everything which we do not give away refines into a gift by its own weight"
"Since oblivion is the rule and fame is but an exception"
"I thank You God for most this amazing day"
"The most destructive thing is a closed mind"
Freedom
"We need not be afraid of becoming ourselves"
"If you are lucky there is a single moment in your life where you get to choose"
"The dance is the mother of all languages"
Art
"Any thing which we do not give away must refine"
Wisdom