A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
--E.E. Cummings
All which isn't singing is mere talking...
--E.E. Cummings
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel...
--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
An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
--E.E. Cummings
As for a few trifling delusions like the 'past' and 'present' and 'future' of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
--E.E. Cummings
humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
--E.E. Cummings
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
--E.E. Cummings
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
--E.E. Cummings
It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
--E.E. Cummings
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
--E.E. Cummings
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
--E.E. Cummings
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
--E.E. Cummings
life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis.
--E.E. Cummings
No sunbeam ever lies.
--E.E. Cummings
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--E.E. Cummings
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)
plays with the bigness of his littleness.
--E.E. Cummings
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--E.E. Cummings
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
--E.E. Cummings
There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them.
--E.E. Cummings
Time's a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all).
--E.E. Cummings
To be nobody-but-myself- 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.
--E.E. Cummings
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
--E.E. Cummings
Tommorow is our permanent address...
--E.E. Cummings
True wars are never won.
--E.E. Cummings
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
--E.E. Cummings
Very luckily for you and me, the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on 'good' and 'bad' alike. He is an artist.
--E.E. Cummings
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Oncewe believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delightor any experience that reveals the human spirit.
--E.E. Cummings
We doctors know
a hopeless case if-listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go.
--E.E. Cummings
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