E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings Quotes

1894-1962, American Poet
quotes
15
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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
Laughter
“Nothing recedes like progress.”
Progress
“It takes three to make a child.”
Children
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
Knowledge
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
Questions
“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
Courage
“Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.”
Property
“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
Income
“Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink”
Humankind
“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.”
America
“when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began”
Creation
“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.”
Nature
“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.”
Poetry and Poets
“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.”
America