I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. – 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. – e. e. cummings
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making. – e. e. cummings
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. – e. e. cummings
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. – 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
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. – 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
To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white. – e. e. cummings
Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. – e. e. cummings
