Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

e. e. cummings Playwright

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Oct 14, 1894
  • Died: Sep 3, 1962

Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.