America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
Source: Why I Like America, in Vanity Fair (New York, May 1927; repr. in A Miscellany, ed. by George J. Firmage, 1958).
-- e e cummings, (Oct 14 1894-1962), US poet, novelist; He is well known for his eccentric language and typography; wrote Tulips are Chimneys, 1923 and the autobiographical The Enormous Room, 1922.