E. E. Cummings Quote

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: The Critical Reception (Burt Franklin Publisher, 1981). Also in: The Symposium: A Critical Review, Volume 3 (Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1932), p. 273


The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.

The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.