E. E. Cummings Quotes on Nature

15 quotes

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

  2. it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

  3. somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence. in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you always open petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose nothing that we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility: (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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

  5. Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe. That's not an answer. There isn't any answer. How long hasn't there been any answer? As long as I can remember. And how long have you written? As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I.

  6. Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain: all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep

  7. no sunbeam ever lies

  8. out of the mountain of his soul comes a keen pure silence

  9. blossoming are people: all the earth has turned to sky :and i am you are i am we

  10. i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes

  11. though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain) will only smile

  12. a great man is gone. Tall as the truth was who; and wore his : life like a : sky.

  13. the cunning the craven : they live for until though the sun in his heaven says Now

  14. they work and they pray and they bow to a must though the earth in her splendor says May

  15. Mostpeople have been heard screaming for international measures that render hell rational -i thank heaven somebody's crazy enough to give me a daisy

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