Top 25 Quotes by e. e. cummings of 266 - Page 3

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

e. e. cummings

Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

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Eye

E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Life, Imagination, Imagine

Tomorrow is our permanent address.

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Future, Addresses, Tomorrow

1 x 1 no. 39, l. 12 (1944)

Lovers alone wear sunlight.

e. e. cummings

Love, Life, Sunlight

E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

e. e. cummings

Eye, Air, Darkness

E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.64, W. W. Norton & Company

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

e. e. cummings

Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

love is the every only god

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Inspirational, Life, God

e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

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I Love You, Spiritual, Stars

E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

e. e. cummings

Beautiful, Wise, Running

The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

e. e. cummings

Truth, Theory, Discussion

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

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Spring, Puddles, World

"Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 9 (1923)

in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

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Night, Sky, Walks

E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.127, W. W. Norton & Company

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.

e. e. cummings

Romantic, Spring, Rose

E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

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Littles, Behind You, Evening

E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.56, W. W. Norton & Company

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

e. e. cummings

Firsts, Steps, Creation

And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love

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Love, Laughing, Breathe

E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

e. e. cummings

Beautiful, Sweet, Fate

E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck