E. E. Cummings - Love Quotes

27 Sourced Quotes

View all E. E. Cummings Quotes
Humanity i love you because
when you're hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink

E. E. Cummings
Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves.

E. E. Cummings
A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.

E. E. Cummings
—the great my darling happens to be
that love are in we, that love are in we

E. E. Cummings
Let it go — the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise — let it go it was sworn to go let them go — the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers — you must let them go they were born to go let all go — the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things — let all go dear so comes love

E. E. Cummings
Measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow

E. E. Cummings
Time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

E. E. Cummings
Nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined, therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes

E. E. Cummings
Love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're).

E. E. Cummings
I feel that (false and true are merely to know)
Love only has ever been, is, and will ever be

E. E. Cummings
Love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

E. E. Cummings
All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.

E. E. Cummings
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

E. E. Cummings
Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds

E. E. Cummings
My father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height

E. E. Cummings
I who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth

E. E. Cummings
More each particular person is (my love)
alive than every world can understand
and now you are and i am now and we're
a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before—
and shining this our now must come to then

E. E. Cummings
It's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until:
…love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)

E. E. Cummings
No evil is
so worse than worst you fall in hate with love —human one mortally immortal i
can turn immense all time's because to why

E. E. Cummings
God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

E. E. Cummings
Yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason

E. E. Cummings
And nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why men breathe—
because my father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all

E. E. Cummings
'and liars kill their kind
but' her, my 'love creates love only' our

E. E. Cummings
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
Love is more thicker than forget
…it is more sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky

E. E. Cummings