my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.


A Poet's Advice (1958)

E. E. Cummings Quotes

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only...

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only...

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only...

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only...