100 Famous Quotes By E.E. Cummings, The Author Of 100 Selected Poems
Famous As: Poet
Born On: 1894
Died On: 1962
Born In: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died At Age: 67
American poet Edward Estlin Cummings, better known as simply ‘E.E’, was famous for the many poems that he wrote but at the same time he was also a playwright and painter of great repute. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts and studied at Harvard University before embarking on a career as a prolific poet. He produced close to 3000 po-ems in his long career. Cummings was enlisted in the US Army during the First World War and was in fact arrested in France for being a suspected spy. He spent only three months in prison and it was the inspiration be-hind his well-known novel ‘The Enormous Room’. Cummings was an active traveler and throughout his youth, he travelled across Europe, Africa and Paris, in particular remained a city with which he shared a special bond. Due to his fame as a poet, playwright and essayist, he was honoured with the post of guest professor by Harvard University. Cum-mings was also honoured with the Bollinger Prize for Poetry in 1958 and is rightly considered among the most significant modern poets. Here are some of the selected quotes from his works that would definitely make for a compelling read.
To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which 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.
Listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
E. E. Cummings
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
E. E. Cummings
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.
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
E. E. Cummings
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
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