Known Quotes by e. e. cummings

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

— e. e. cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”

— e. e. cummings

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.

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“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.”

— e. e. cummings

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective…

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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of…

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it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

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Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same sun moon stars rain

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O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

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wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady…

— e. e. cummings