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Quotes from e. e. cummings

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
~ e. e. cummings
When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
~ e. e. cummings
when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
~ e. e. cummings
that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
~ e. e. cummings
hopes dance best on bald men's hair
~ e. e. cummings
a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
~ e. e. cummings
May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young
~ e. e. cummings
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
~ e. e. cummings
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
~ e. e. cummings
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
~ e. e. cummings
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
~ e. e. cummings
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
~ e. e. cummings
great men burn bridges before they come to them
~ e. e. cummings
Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.
~ e. e. cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
~ e. e. cummings
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
~ e. e. cummings
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
~ e. e. cummings
most people are perfectly afraid of silence
~ e. e. cummings
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky
~ e. e. cummings
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
~ e. e. cummings
We can never be born enough.
~ e. e. cummings
Be of love(a little) More careful Than everything
~ e. e. cummings
who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you
~ e. e. cummings
And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
~ e. e. cummings