e. e. cummings Quote

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
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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 ...
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
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Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
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The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
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Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
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Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
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next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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he sang his didn't he danced his did
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

in Just-- spring when the world is mud-- luscious the little lame balloonman whi...
E E CUMMINGS (EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS)

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing ...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody els...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven or...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything bega...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E

Compton is my city.
EAZY-E

I put Compton on the map.
EAZY-E

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
EAZY-E

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to...
EAZY-E

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
EAZY-E

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
EAZY-E

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t...
EAZY-E

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like...
EAZY-E

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
EAZY-E

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
EAZY-E

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th...
EAZY-E

People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
EAZY-E

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott...
EAZY-E

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
EAZY-E

If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
EAZY-E

Cussing ain't for everybody.
EAZY-E

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. LOCKHART

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

She will not be simple and sweet.
She will not be what people tell her she should be.
E. LOCKHART

Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am s...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART

Sarcasm spoils reproof.
E. WIGGLESWORH

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit...
EAZY-E

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E.

Always do what you're afraid to do.
E. LOCKHART

Yang sudah terlanjur terjadi tidak bisa kita batakan. Kita yan harus memutuskan, mau bangkit atau di...
ARUMI E.

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Ama...
E. NESBIT

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
E. LOCKHART

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept...
E. LOCKHART

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. LOCKHART

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a be...
E. NESBIT

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
E. RUTHERFORD

If you have the desire, you are halfway there.
E. CRIQUE

The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
E. BRIAN

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of ge...
E. F.SCHUMACKER

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nomina...
SHEILA E.

We looked at the sky. So many stars, it seemed like a celebration, a grand, illicit party the galaxy...
E. LOCKHART

The universe was good because he was in it.
E. LOCKHART

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could ...
E. LOCKHART

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
E. LOCKHART

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person,...
E. LOCKHART

Ohhh, I LOVE dim sum! What is it?
LAUREN-E

As if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.
E. LOCKHART

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
E. LOCKHART

It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
E. LOCKHART

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav...
E. NESBIT

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
E. LOCKHART

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem...
E. LOCKHART

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to ge...
E. LOCKHART

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you t...
E. LOCKHART

To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to b...
SHEILA E.

You go ahead and eat that if you want, but I don't think it's possible.......
E. CLAIRE

The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the g...
E. LOCKHART

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E. RUTHERFORD

Do not accept an evil you can change.
E. LOCKHART

The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen
E. PALUSZAK

Unfortunately, it seems that I am eternally trapped in the dark realm of tangled ear-buds.
E. CLAIRE

The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE

I'm Canadian. Can't you take my word on it? (To Canadian immigration)
LAUREN-E

Don’t cry for me, yet make sure I live on instead/the flesh may be destroyed, but the soul has a l...
E. PALUSZAK

The irony of it all is that, while most people don't want to die, generally, those same people want ...
E. CLAIRE

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
E. LOCKHART

Beauty comes from the inside, beyond your fair skin.
E. MELLYBERRY

Silence is a protective coating over pain.
E. LOCKHART

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
E. LOCKHART

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than fi...
E. LOCKHART

Everyone who works at McDonalds has to do one of those ghost shifts.
LAUREN-E

She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE

Lonely like the sun......if anyone gets close to me I burn them
LAURA E

You can want me to do my job. Just don't expect me to.
E. CLAIRE

It's not that I'm lazy. I'm just prone to not working. At all. Ever.
E. CLAIRE

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART

He's afraid to confront the issues,
E. HELM

ONCE UPON A time, there was a king who had three beautiful daughters. He loved each of them dearly. ...
E. LOCKHART

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.
E. LOCKHART

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. LOCKHART

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I fee...
E. LOCKHART

I love him, but I am not sure I like him.
E. LOCKHART

She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing ...
E. LOCKHART

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.
E. LOCKHART

He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART

Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART

Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than c...
E. LOCKHART

Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces.
E. LOCKHART

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?
E. LOCKHART

She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART

A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far ...
E. LOCKHART

My boyfriend is named Percocet," I say. "We're very close. I even went to Europe with him last summe...
E. LOCKHART

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART

... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.
E. LOCKHART

There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART

What a night it was! The jagged masses of heavy dark cloud were rolling at intervals from horizon to...
E. NESBIT

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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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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