142 Quotes by E.E. Cummings

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.

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.

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

Only by you my heart always moves.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms.

I gave him a pleasant smile, which said, If I could see your intestines very slowly embracing a large wooden drum rotated by means of a small iron crank turned gently and softly by myself, I should be extraordinarily happy.