e. e. cummings Quotes

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e. e. cummings

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 14, 1894

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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To be nobody but yourself 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.

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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It takes three to make a child.

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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