e. e. cummings Quotes - Page 4

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• love is the every only god

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  Inspirational, Life, God

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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  Firsts, Steps, Creation

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• i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Fate

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

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  Romantic, Spring, Rose

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

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  Tired, Thinking, Littles

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, C.H.Beck

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• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

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  Beauty, Girl, Naked

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

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  Spring, Puddles, World

  "Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 9 (1923)

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• An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

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  Fighting, Intelligent, Causes

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love

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  Love, Laughing, Breathe

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

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  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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  Romantic, Valentines Day, Fate

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.77, W. W. Norton & Company

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• suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

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  Flower, Men, Life Is

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.23, C.H.Beck

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• yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds

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  World, This World

  E. E. Cummings (1998). “No Thanks”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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  Knowledge, Imagination, Buried

  1951 'Jottings', in Wake, no.10.

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• life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Life And Death

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.

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  Believe, Artist, Animal

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• Progress is a comfortable disease.

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  Fear, Progress, Atheism

  1 x 1 no. 14, l. 1 (1944)

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• who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you

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  Kissing, Attention, Syntax

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If you like my poems let them
  walk in the evening, a little behind you

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  Littles, Behind You, Evening

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.56, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life ,for eternal us,is now

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  Eternal

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

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  Sweet, Feet, Soul

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

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  Hands, Mountain, Despair

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• You shall above all things be glad and young.

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  Young, Glad, All Things

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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  Dream, Eye, Gay

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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