E.E. Cummings Quotes

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

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.

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.

The greatest battle we must fight is the battle to be ourselves.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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

The ears of my ears awake and the eyes of my eyes are opened.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you actually are.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

To live is being happy.

The will of fire is life, death and hope.

The first condition of being alive is the ability to think and since man’s mind is capable of consciousness, slavery and ignorance are not natural or inescapable.

E.E. Cummings Quotes part 2

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

I love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

The world is full of children begging to be loved.

I will be love to you if you’ll be love to me.

Reality is an open secret.

Poetry is the geometry of the soul.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

Drinking down the razors of the beautiful but estranged human past, the ingrown nails of impeding progress.

Since feeling is first, who pays attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you.

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.

I should rather than anything have loved you.

I love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

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

The poet’s mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.

Hope allows us to cope, but it doesn’t blind us to reality.

Every leaf a miracle. Every color a symphony. Every word a song.

It’s an amazing world we have created for ourselves. It’s even more amazing when we remember it’s all in our minds.

Live as if each moment is the most beautiful you have ever experienced.

Love is the melody that makes all our hearts sing.

In the midst of chaos, find peace within.

The secret to happiness is simply being yourself.