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e. e. cummings [1894-1962] American

Rank: 4
Poet (with poems)

Aestheticism, Dada, Didactism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet, Surrealism, Symbolism

Edward Estlin "E. E." Cummings, often stylized as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

Imagination, Inspirational, Amazing, Best, Courage, Experience, God, Humor, Intelligence, Knowledge, Learning, Life, Love, Nature, Teen, Valentine's Day, Wisdom

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.	Experience, Inspirational	101
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.	Amazing, God, Inspirational	102
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.	Best	103
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.		104
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.	Humor	105
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.	Courage, Teen	106
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.		107
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.	Nature	108
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.	Love	109
It takes three to make a child.		110
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.	Imagination, Knowledge	111
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.		112
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.		113
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.		114
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.		115
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.	Imagination	116
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.		117
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.		118
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.	Intelligence	119
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.		120
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.	Life	121
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.	Valentine's Day, Wisdom	122
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.		123
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.		124
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.		125
Nothing recedes like progress.		126
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.		201
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.	Learning	202
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.		203

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