All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

— e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

— e. e. cummings

I thank You, God, for this most 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.

— e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

— e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings

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

— e. e. cummings