282 Quotes by E. E. Cummings

...and down they forgot as up they grew.

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all

Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.

all which isn't singing is mere talking ... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of(as mountains feel and lovers)singing is silence

The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains.