I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGSUnbeing dead isn’t being alive.
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
-
-
The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Tomorrow is our permanent address.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves… Honor and love him do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Only by you my heart always moves.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
E. E. CUMMINGS -
Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CUMMINGS







