e. e. cummings

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

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. 

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. 

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. 

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

Be of love a little more careful than of anything. 

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing. 

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

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

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. 

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

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