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
Random E. E. Cummings quote
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out of the mountain of his soul
comes a keen pure silence
XAIPE (1950)
because it's
Spring
thingS
dare to do people
this is the garden: colours come and go,
frail azures fluttering from night’s outer wing
strong silent greens serenely lingering,
absolute lights like baths of golden snow.
XLI Poems (1925)
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun, more last than star
nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.
A Poet's Advice to Students (1958)
love is the every only god
they flock and they flee through the thunder of seem
though the stars in their silence
say Be
they work and they pray
and they bow to a must
though the earth in her splendor
says May
a million thousand hundred nothings seem
—we are himself's own self;his very him
all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again
hugest whole creation may be less
incalculable than a single kiss
it's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until:
...love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)
the axis of the universe
—love
Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
Foreword to an Exhibit: I (1944)