Quotes from e. e. cummings

take it from me kiddobelieve memy country, 'tis ofyou, land of the CluettShirt Boston Garter and SpearmintGirl With The Wrigley Eyes (of youland of the Arrow Ideand Earl &WilsonCollars) of you ising: land of Abraham Lincoln and LydiaE. Pinkham,land above all of Just Add Hot Water AndServe—from every B.V.D.let freedom ringamen.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

and nothing quite so least as truth—i say though hate were why men breathe—because my father lived his soullove is the whole and more than all

"there is some s. I will not eat"

next to of course god america ilove you land of the pilgrims' and so forth

unless statistics lie he wasmore brave than me:more blond than you.

"I will not kiss your f.ing flag"

i sing of Olaf glad and bigwhose warmest heart recoiled at war

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished soulsare unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

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

in Just-spring when the world is mud-luscious the littlelame balloonmanwhistles far and wee

though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing.

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud. And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.

We doctors knowa hopeless case if—listen: there's a hellof a good universe next door; let's go

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyondany experience, your eyes have their silence.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

when the world is puddle-wonderful

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

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.

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

my father moved through dooms of lovethrough sames of am through haves of give,singing each morning out of each nightmy father moved through depths of height

Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: just because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day). Quickly take me up into the bright child of your mind.

(So,when kiss Spring comes we'll kiss each kiss other on kiss the kiss lips because tic clocks toc don't make a toctic difference to kisskiss you and to kiss me)

All in green went my love ridingon a great horse of goldinto the silver dawn.