E. E. Cummings Quotes
1894–1962 United States
Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962), commonly known as e e cummings or E. E.
- United States
- Anti-communists
- Essayists
- Painters
- Playwrights
Also known as: Cummings, E. E., E E Cummings, E. e. cummings, Edward Cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings
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life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
is 5 (1926)
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
XAIPE (1950)
—the great my darling happens to be
that love are in we, that love are in we
XAIPE (1950)
It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake
Him (1927)
As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
i: six nonlectures (1953)
who knows if the moon's
a balloon, coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
among
the slow deep trees perpetual of sleep
some silver-fingered fountain steals the world.
XLI Poems (1925)
i feel that(false and true are merely to know)
Love only has ever been,is,and will ever be,So
XAIPE (1950)
true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who
measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow
—tommorrow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now
seeming's enough for slaves of space and time
—ours is the now and here of freedom. Come
open your thighs to fate and(if you can
withholding nothing)World, conceive a man
no thanks (1935)
Damn everything but the circus!...The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
is 5 (1926)
i like, slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz
of your electric furr,and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh ....
'and liars kill their kind
but' her,my 'love creates love only' our
no evil is
so worse than worst you fall in hate with love
—human one mortally immortal i
can turn immense all time's because to why
what if a dawn of a doom of a dream
bites this universe in two,
peels forever out of it's grave
and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
Tulips and Chimneys (1923)