Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings -
Man
Quotes
13 Sourced Quotes
View all E. E. Cummings Quotes
Source
Report...
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air...
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
A politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
There are still a few erect human beings in the socalled world. Proudly and humbly, I say to these human beings:
"O my fellow citizens, many an honest man believes a lie. Though you are as honest as the day, fear and hate the liar. Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated: now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated: in yourselves.
"Do not hate and fear the artist in yourselves, my fellow citizens. Honour him and love him. Love him truly— do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow.
"Only the artist in yourselves is more truthful than the night."
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
When man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because.
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
That strictly (and how) scientific
land of supernod
where freedom is compulsory
and only man is god.
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
Mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
A man who had fallen among thieves
lay by the roadside on his back
dressed in fifteenthrate ideas
wearing a round jeer for a hat
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
—when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn't matter a very good God damn...
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
On the grammar skills of US President Warren G. Harding following his death:
The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.
E. E. Cummings
Source
Report...
A great
man
is
gone. Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.
E. E. Cummings
Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
E. E. Cummings
Creative Commons
Born:
October 14, 1894
Died:
September 3, 1962
(aged 67)
More about E. E. Cummings...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes