Quotes by Edward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)

Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often styled as e e cummings, as he sometimes signed his name, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

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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.

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Life, DeathEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Self-ConfidenceEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.

LoveEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

RelationshipsEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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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.

FriendshipEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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The most wasted of all days, is one without laughter.

Laughing & SmileEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
 
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

CharacterEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
 
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In other words, you don't want to be serious
It takes two to be serious.

SeriousnessEdward Estlin Cummings (E. E. Cummings)
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
Than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

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