e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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

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

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

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

It takes three to make a child.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.