282 Quotes by E. E. Cummings

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.

Life ,for eternal us,is now

maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

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

The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

O sweet spontaneous earth