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Your Quotes for 14 October 2005 - E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts on this day in 1894. Growing up in a literate and liberal home, he was writing poetry by age ten. He attended Cambridge Latin High School and received both BA and MA from Harvard - his poetry appeared in publications of both schools. He volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I, but orders were misplaced and he spent several weeks enjoying Paris before being put to work. His pacifist convictions led to his arrest on charges of espionage, and he spent the rest of this tour in a detention camp. He is mostly known for his poetry, specifically that he took an unusual approach to capitalization, punctuation, and spacing of the text on the page, although he never took the capital letters out of his name as many have used it. He was also a novelist, essayist, playwright, and painter.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

may i feel said he
(i'll squeal said she
just once said he)
it's fun said she

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
     - All from Edward Estlin Cummings, 1894 - 1962

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