e. e. cummings Quotes

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

Poetry is fired by love.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.

Dance should mean something to you.

My first love is literature.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

I like writing love songs. I really like romantic poetry.

I really feel something's missing if I'm not writing.

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.