e. e. cummings Quotes

After a long time I returned to my bunk and I lay down, closing my eyes; feeling the snow’s minute and crisp touch falling gently and exquisitely, falling perfectly and suddenly, through the thick soundless autumn of imagination

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

next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh say can you see by the dawn’s early my country ’tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim your glorious name by […]

most people fear most: a mystery for which i’ve no word except alive that is, completely alert and miraculously whole; with not merely a mind and a heart but unquestionably a soul

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

He was humane but not human

Mr. Pound (Ezra Pound) is humane, but not human

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

(dreaming et cetera of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because