Top 60 E.E. Cummings Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— E.E. Cummings

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

— E.E. Cummings

3. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

— E.E. Cummings

4. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

— E.E. Cummings

5. “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

— E.E. Cummings

6. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

— E.E. Cummings

7. “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.”

— E.E. Cummings

8. “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.”

— E.E. Cummings

9. “The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

— E.E. Cummings

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10. “Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”

— E.E. Cummings

11. “And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.”

— E.E. Cummings

12. “Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.”

— E.E. Cummings

13. “One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.”

— E.E. Cummings

14. “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

— E.E. Cummings

15. “Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.”

— E.E. Cummings

16. “Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”

— E.E. Cummings

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17. “You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”

— E.E. Cummings

18. “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”

— E.E. Cummings

19. “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”

— E.E. Cummings

20. “She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.”

— E.E. Cummings

21. “Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.”

— E.E. Cummings

22. “I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

— E.E. Cummings

23. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”

— E.E. Cummings

24. “Love is the whole and more than all.”

— E.E. Cummings

25. “I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.”

— E.E. Cummings

26. “We can never be born enough.”

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27. “Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.”

— E.E. Cummings

28. “You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars.”

— E.E. Cummings

29. “Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.”

— E.E. Cummings

30. “Your homecoming will be my homecoming.”

— E.E. Cummings

31. “Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such small hands.”

— E.E. Cummings

32. “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.”

— E.E. Cummings

33. “That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”

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34. “The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

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35. “Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”

— E.E. Cummings

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

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37. “Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

— E.E. Cummings

38. “I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.”

— E.E. Cummings

39. “I don’t like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It’s a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.”

— E.E. Cummings

40. “And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms.”

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41. “Only by you my heart always moves.”

— E.E. Cummings

42. “I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.”

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43. “I gave him a pleasant smile, which said, If I could see your intestines very slowly embracing a large wooden drum rotated by means of a small iron crank turned gently and softly by myself, I should be extraordinarily happy.”

— E.E. Cummings

44. “Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.”

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45. “Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows.”

— E.E. Cummings

46. “Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers.”

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47. “How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?”

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48. “If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.”

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49. “Tomorrow is our permanent address.”

— E.E. Cummings

50. “If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

— E.E. Cummings