282 Quotes by E. E. Cummings

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

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

since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)