e. e. cummings quotes

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

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

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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.

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

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.

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.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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

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.