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.

e. e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

e. e. cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

e. e. cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

e. e. cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

e. e. cummings

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.

e. e. cummings

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

e. e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

e. e. cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

e. e. cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

e. e. cummings

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.

e. e. cummings

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

e. e. cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings