30 Inspirational E E Cummings Quotes Life, Love, And Poetry

E E Cummings was an American poet born in 1894. He is best known for his poetry collection, “Max Allan Collins.

The first son of a mill worker, Cummings became somewhat of a street urchin and ran away from home several times. He dropped out of school in the sixth grade and began working as a newspaper boy to earn food. Later he became an apprentice printer, then worked as a typesetter, proofreader and finally found work at the Associated Press, where he worked until his retirement in 1956.

He never married or had children but was close friends with Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, who wrote about their experiences with him in their memoirs. In 1970 he received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his book “A Worn Path.

Here are 30 inspirational E E Cummings quotes life, love, and poetry

1. “We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.” ― E. E. Cummings

2. “Because only the truest things always are true because they can’t be true.” ― E. E. Cummings

3. “To be nobody, but yourself in a world that is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” ― E. E. Cummings

4. “Nobody loses all the time.” ― E. E. Cummings

5. “As small as a world, as large as alone.” ― E. E. Cummings

6. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E. E. Cummings

7. “Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.” ― E. E. Cummings

8. “A wind has blown the rain away and the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think I, too, have known autumn too long.” ― E. E. Cummings

9. “You are whatever a moon has always meant, and whatever a sun is, will always sing to you.” ― E. E. Cummings

10. “It takes two to be serious.” ― E. E. Cummings

11. “Now the ears of my ears are awake, and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.” ― E. E. Cummings

12. “One’s not half of two; two are halves of one.” ― E. E. Cummings

13. “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” ― E. E. Cummings

14. “Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E. E. Cummings

15. “Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.” ― E. E. Cummings

16. “Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.” ― E. E. Cummings

17. “Great men burn bridges before they come to them.” ― E. E. Cummings

18. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love, though the stars walk backward.” ― E. E. Cummings

19. “A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t.” ― E. E. Cummings

20. “Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” ― E. E. Cummings

21. “And now you are and I am and, and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.” ― E. E. Cummings

22. “Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.” ― E. E. Cummings

23. “A good book has no ending.” ― E. E. Cummings

24. “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.” ― E. E. Cummings

25. “If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by creating.” ― E. E. Cummings

26. “An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.” ― E. E. Cummings

27. “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people, but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.” ― E. E. Cummings

28. “May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living.” ― E. E. Cummings

29. “Humanity, I love you because when you’re hard up; you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.” ― E. E. Cummings

30. “Deeds cannot dream what dreams can do.” ― E. E. Cummings

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