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E. E. Cummings Quotes (1894-1962)
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About E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962) was an American poet. Because of the typography used in many of his works it has become a widespread tradition for his name to be presented in lower case as e. e. cummings, though he himself continued to use uppercase letters in signing his own name.
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“unbeingdead isn't beingalive”
“completely dare
be beautiful”
be beautiful”
“nothing except the impossible shall occur”
“it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful”
“unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home”
“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”
And death i think is no parenthesis”
“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man”
which everyone has sat except a man”
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E. E. Cummings on Love 15 quotes
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View all 13 quotes on Poetry about love →E. E. Cummings on Now 8 quotes
View all 8 quotes on Now →E. E. Cummings on Doom 3 quotes
“measureless our pure living complete love whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow”
E. E. Cummings on Door
E. E. Cummings on Hound
E. E. Cummings on Sea
E. E. Cummings on Cunning
E. E. Cummings on Pubic hair
“i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ....”
E. E. Cummings on The All
“The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!”
E. E. Cummings on Yes
“i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes”
E. E. Cummings on Spacetime
“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself — whoever himself may be — is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.”
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E. E. Cummings on Women
“the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.”
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Marge Piercy interview on E. E. Cummings
“I admire E.E. Cummings's musicality, less for his visual-only poems, not at all for his occasional anti-Semitism.”
About E. E. Cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962) was an American poet. Because of the typography used in many of his works it has become a widespread tradition for his name to be presented in lower case as e. e. cummings, though he himself continued to use uppercase letters in signing his own name.