Cummings, E. E. (E. E. Cummings)

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
-- E. E. Cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
-- E. E. Cummings

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- E. E. Cummings

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- E. E. Cummings

Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
-- E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence. in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
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-- E. E. Cummings

My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
-- E. E. Cummings

Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable. In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn
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There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this sort
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out of the mountain of his soul comes a keen pure silence
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blossoming are people
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now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened
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completely dare be beautiful
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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel
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nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time
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my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world
-- E. E. Cummings