E. E. Cummings quote: "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."

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

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

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

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
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

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

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

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

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

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

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

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be 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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
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 obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing ...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have
one. It will not be a pansy heaven or...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody els...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything bega...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS

in Just-- spring when the world is mud-- luscious the little lame balloonman whi...
E E CUMMINGS (EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS)

The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit...
EAZY-E

Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. LOCKHART

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.
E. LOCKHART

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, ...
SHEILA E.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.
EAZY-E

I put Compton on the map.
EAZY-E

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.
EAZY-E

Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out th...
EAZY-E

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -E. Rutherford.
E. RUTHERFORD

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Ama...
E. NESBIT

I'm Canadian. Can't you take my word on it? (To Canadian immigration)
LAUREN-E

We can't know or say what other people do. You have to think what you want to do to ge...
E. LOCKHART

... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav...
E. NESBIT

In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour.
E. LOCKHART

It's good to be loved, even thought it will not last
E. LOCKHART

But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I fee...
E. LOCKHART

She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing ...
E. LOCKHART

He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.
E. LOCKHART

Be sad, be sorry-but don't shoulder it.
E. LOCKHART

Here I am frozen, when I deserve to burn.
E. LOCKHART

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever.
E. LOCKHART

I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with G...
E. LOCKHART

There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHART

although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did ...
E. LOCKHART

If you really care about somebody, sometimes the best way to love them is to let them go.
E. MELLYBERRY

He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART

There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART

La tragedia no es glamurosa
E. LOCKHART

The Postal Service is proud to add the
E. POTTER

If you notice how the requirement for Constitution Day came about, it was a stipulation hidden in an...
E. HICKS

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, b...
E. HELM

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them.
E. LOCKHART

Gideon laughed. "I like to be direct."
"Okay," I said. "But I warn you, I like to be evasive, i...
E. LOCKHART

Frankie appreciated both the accolades and the rejections equally, because both meant she'd had an i...
E. LOCKHART

Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept...
E. LOCKHART

Compton is my city.
EAZY-E

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.
EAZY-E

If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change t...
EAZY-E

I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like...
EAZY-E

Cussing ain't for everybody.
EAZY-E

Always do what you're afraid to do.
E. LOCKHART

If you have the desire, you are halfway there.
E. CRIQUE

The ear is something we cannot close at will, and we are the poorer for it.
E. BRIAN

The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nomina...
SHEILA E.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.
E. LOCKHART

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.
E. LOCKHART

I love him, but I am not sure I like him.
E. LOCKHART

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing...
E. LOCKHART

Don’t cry for me, yet make sure I live on instead/the flesh may be destroyed, but the soul has a l...
E. PALUSZAK

Then why do they hate me?
No, they don't. They are just confused. Something different always c...
E. MELLYBERRY

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right
E. LOCKHART

Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.
E. LOCKHART

The work force could be short as many as 20 million college-educated workers by 2031,
E. POTTER

Demand for labor will begin exceeding supply within just five years, ... Unless these shortages are ...
E. POTTER

We will continue to reduce costs by improving efficiency in all our operational and business process...
E. POTTER

You're thinking to much, just let it flow
E. PALUSZAK

Dont cry for me, yet make sure I live on instead. The flesh may be destroyed, but the soul has a l...
E. PALUSZAK

He's not going to stop preying on innocent women, ... We're not angry. We're not scorned. We're much...
E. HICKS

We feel like it isn't really our money, ... We're just stewards.
E. HELM

Lonely like the sun......if anyone gets close to me I burn them
LAURA E

One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could ...
E. LOCKHART

Ohhh, I LOVE dim sum! What is it?
LAUREN-E

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person,...
E. LOCKHART

The universe was good because he was in it.
E. LOCKHART

Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on...
EAZY-E

I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
EAZY-E

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to...
EAZY-E

Yang sudah terlanjur terjadi tidak bisa kita batakan. Kita yan harus memutuskan, mau bangkit atau di...
ARUMI E.

For Gat with everything, everything. Cady
E. LOCKHART

..we'll deal with it, because the good outweighs the bad.
E. LOCKHART

The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E. LOCKHART

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.
E. LOCKHART

Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bu...
E. LOCKHART

I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.
E. LOCKHART

She's not drunk, she's just not sober.
E. CLAIRE

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
E. RUTHERFORD

As if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.
E. LOCKHART

Get over it, Roo. If you have friends who actually like you, you’re popular enough.
E. LOCKHART

You must live long enough to remember your mistake. That is your punishment. That is your destiny.
E. MELLYBERRY

Over time, it's become obvious these fees are causing harm to LIHEAP recipients,
E. HURLEY

It's not like they are on the brink, but the growth party is over for now.
E. HURLEY

People said, 'Maybe this is an isolated event,'
E. HURLEY

The Constitution is very similar to a human skeleton. It is the framework upon which government oper...
E. HICKS

I'm happy to see Baker's coming forward, ... A campaign should really be a test of who you are as a ...
E. HELM

If a business is losing market share, it tends to think about what it can do to reinvigorate its pro...
E. POTTER

The wind speaks, its been around the world, has seen many things, both good and bad, you just gotta ...
E. PALUSZAK

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is bett...
E. LOCKHART

Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?

Hutch: I used to think people were popular b...
E. LOCKHART

Always do what you're afraid to do.
...
I will prove myself strong when they think I am s...
E. LOCKHART

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's r...
EAZY-E

Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
EAZY-E

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
EAZY-E

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
EAZY-E

I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gott...
EAZY-E

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
EAZY-E

Unfortunately, it seems that I am eternally trapped in the dark realm of tangled ear-buds.
E. CLAIRE

The world is filled with a bunch of cheaters and bad referees: Life isn't fair but almost nobody eve...
E. CLAIRE

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.

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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.

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