“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

—  E.E. Cummings

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." by E.E. Cummings?
E.E. Cummings photo
E.E. Cummings 208
American poet 1894–1962

Related quotes

“God doesn't give a damn.”

Lancelot Law Whyte (1896–1972) Scottish industrial engineer

The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion (1974)

James Joyce photo

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Source: Ulysses by James Joyce

Thomas Lodge photo

“With orient pearl, with ruby red,
With marble white, with sapphire blue,
Her body every way is fed,
Yet soft in touch, and sweet in view:”

Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) English dramatist and writer

Poem, Rosalynde

Bashō Matsuo photo

“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Japanese Haiku

Mae West photo

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)

Richard Stallman photo

“Snow is so beautiful, it doesn't have to be useful.”

Richard Stallman (1953) American software freedom activist, short story writer and computer programmer, founder of the GNU project

Parliament Hill Speech, Ottawa, Canada, (2 June 2009)
2000s

“Your touch is soft, but your gaze is intent personified.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: SHADES OF VANITY: Shades and Shadows of Eroticism

Amy Lowell photo

“You are ice and fire
The touch of you burns my hands like snow”

Amy Lowell (1874–1925) US writer
Kenneth Grahame photo

“Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Reluctant Dragon

Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

“Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: Intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But I know now there's one thing you've all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.

Related topics