Quotes by Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on america
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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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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on humankind
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on income
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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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. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on nature
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"It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing."

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

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"Nothing recedes like progress."

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

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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on questions
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"It takes three to make a child."

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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began"

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"… and down they forgot as up they grew "

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"Lovers alone wear sunlight"

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"I Carry your heart. (I carry it in my heart)."

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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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