E.E. Cummings

Quotes

• “i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowersI will take the sun in my mouthand leap into the ripe air A...”
• “Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you fe...”
• “O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Government...”
• “there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing ...”
• “For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all...”
• “mr youse needn't be so spryconcernin questions artyeach has his tastes but as for ii likes a certain partygimme the he-m...”
• “I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deep...”
• “I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's ...”
• “no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose a...”
• “Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violetsdandelionsAnd the big bullying daisies through the field wonderfulwith eyes a ...”
• “i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneb...”
• “hate blows a bubble of despair intohugeness world system universe and bang-fear buries a tomorrow under woeand up comes ...”
• “Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can loveand who shall be cont...”
• “... (lady i willtouch you with my mind.) Touchyou, that is all/lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite care/ th...”
• “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the hum...”
• “Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses. Nobody, not even the rain has such sma...”
• “love being such, or such,the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark”
• “something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace”
• “You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
• “Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?”
• “i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell”
• “a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man”
• “it's springand the goat-footedballoonMan whistlesfarandwee”
• “a pretty girl, who naked isis worth a million statues”
• “to hell with literaturewe want something redblooded”
• “his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine”
• “for every mile the feet gothe heart goes nine”
• “I fear no fate for you are my fate, my sweet.”
• “How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?”
• “As small as a world as large as alone.”
• “deeds cannot dream what dreams can do”
• “may I be I is the only prayer”
• “Awake,chaos:we have napped.”
• “l(aleaffalls)oneliness”