Quotation by

e. e. cummings

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

Love

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

The quote shows a deep affection for people’s willingness to sacrifice their cleverness or wisdom in difficult times just to find comfort or escape. It highlights a raw, honest side of human nature where survival or relief is sometimes more important than pride or intellect.

More by this author

All quotes by e. e. cummings →

More quotes about Love

See all →

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and …

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.