Quotes by Edward. E. Cummings

Edward. E. Cummings

Edward. E. Cummings

American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright

Lived from: 1894 - 1962

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 14 october 1894 Died: 3 september 1962

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  • Nothing recedes like progress.
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  • A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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  • 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.
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  • Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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  • 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.
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  • At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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  • Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
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  • It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
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  • It takes three to make a child.
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  • Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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  • Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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  • The earth laughs in flowers.
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  • when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
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What are the most famous quotes from Edward. E. Cummings?

The two most famous quotes from Edward. E. Cummings are:

  • "Nothing recedes like progress."
  • "A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man."

When did Edward. E. Cummings live?

Edward. E. Cummings was born in 1894 and died in the year 1962.