Creative Quotations from e. e. cummings (1894-1962) born on Oct 14 US poet, novelist; well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips.

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Creative Quotations from e. e. cummings ( ) born on Oct 14 US poet, novelist; well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips are Chimneys, 1923 and the autobiographical The Enormous Room, 1922.

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

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

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

Nothing recedes like progress.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best… to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle… and never stop fighting.

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