maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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 — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image