“the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of day tortured in gold” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“Because of his unusual way of handling language, Cummings had to travel a long road from the time his early books were… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“if everything happens that can't be done (and anything's righter than books could plan) the stupidest teacher will almost guess (with a… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine.… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere I go you go,my dear;… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“Humanity i love you because you would rather black the boots of success than enquire whose soul dangles from his watch-chain which… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities --i do not worry if briefer days grow… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“...we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,--… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“may i feel, said he i'll squeal, said she just once, said he it's fun, said she may i touch, said he how much,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too,… — e.e. cummings Copy Share Image
“(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
