Quotes By E. E. Cummings
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.
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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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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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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.
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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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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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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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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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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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