Quotes About Cummings

Continuing the legacy of Elijah E. Cummings requires that we fulfill our destiny to fight for the world as it should be.

In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings.

A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.

doesn't it seem odd that Gowing's always coming and Cummings' always going?

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.