e.e. cummings

Poet American 1894 – 1962

American experimental poet known for unconventional syntax.

95 quotes

"We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable"
"Take the moment and make it sweet"
"Listen there is a hell of a good universe next door let us go"
Adventure
"Unlock doors with the power of beauty"
Beauty
"We accept the love we think we deserve"
Relationships
"Next to of course god america i love you"
"I never loved your mind"
Love
"Be of love a little more careful than of anything"
"Here is little Effie's head whose brains are made of gingerbread"
Humor
"The privilege of his eyes to see the world"
"Self-pity gets you nowhere"
"I would like to paint the way birds sing"
Art
"Make whatever you choose your masterpiece"
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor"
Perseverance
"Progress is a comfortable disease"
Change
"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man"
"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth"
"Love is patient love is kind"
Love
"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people"
"All in green went my love riding"
"Ego is the anesthetic that deadens the pain of stupidity"
Wisdom
"I'll lend you a dream if you lend me one"
Friendship
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent eternal self-sacrifice"
"I carry your heart with me i carry it in my heart"
"Be yourself everyone else is already taken"
"The privilege of your eyes seeing the world"
Gratitude
"You loved me then but that is not now and here we are now"
"Life's not a paragraph Something you leave out then when you died it's gone"
"Let us leave take up the beautiful burden of mysterious folly"
Adventure
"Neither can you deny that life is beautiful"
Beauty