A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

- e. e. cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

- e. e. cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

- e. e. cummings

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

- e. e. cummings

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

- e. e. cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

- e. e. cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

- e. e. cummings

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

- 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

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

- e. e. cummings

It takes three to make a child.

- e. e. cummings

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

- e. e. cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

- e. e. cummings

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

- e. e. cummings

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

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

- e. e. cummings