Edward Estlin Cummings

Quotes by Edward Estlin Cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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

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

It takes three to make a child.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

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.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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.

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.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.