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E. E. Cummings Quotes

E. E. Cummings quotes

American Poet October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962

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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strongtoday... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming. E. E. Cummings
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) Edward Estlin Cummings E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings quote: "life's not a paragraph. And death i think is no parenthesis.."
life's not a paragraph. And death i think is no parenthesis.. E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings quote: "we are for each other: thenlaugh, leaning back in my armsfor..."
we are for each other: thenlaugh, leaning back in my armsfor life's not a paragraphand death i think is no parenthesis E. E. Cummings
Such was a poet and shall be and is-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand. E. E. Cummings
you shall above all things be glad and young. For if you're young, whatever life you wearit will become you; and if you are gladwhatever's living will yourself become. E. E. Cummings
you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body, to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing, i said, except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. .... and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always, the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe, the rain answered E. E. Cummings
a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness, noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man, whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on... E. E. Cummings
i shall imagine lifeis not worth dying, if(and when)roses complaintheir beauties are in vainbut though mankind persuadesitself that every weed'sa rose, roses(you feelcertain)will only smile E. E. Cummings
a total stranger one black dayknocked living the hell out of me-who found forgiveness hard becausemy(as it happened)self he was-but now that fiend and i are suchimmortal friends the other's each E. E. Cummings
dive for dreamsor a slogan may topple you(trees are their rootsand wind is wind)trust your heartif the seas catch fire(and live by lovethough the stars walk backward)honour the pastbut welcome the future(and dance your deathaway at this wedding)never mind a worldwith its villains or heroes(for god likes girlsand tomorrow and the earth) E. E. Cummings
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. E. E. Cummings
if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that doesn't matter (and if he she it or everybody gets a bellyful without lifting my finger i say to hell with that i say that doesn't matter) but if somebody or you are beautiful or deep or generous what i say is whistle that sing that yell that spell that out big (bigger than cosmic rays w ar earthquakes famine or the ex prince of whoses diving into a whatses to rescue miss nobody's probably... E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings quote: "may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or..."
may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. E. E. Cummings
XVIILady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touchuntil you giveme suddenly a smile, shyly obscene(lady i willtouch you with my mind.)Touchyou, that is all, lightly and you utterly will becomewith infinite carethe poem which i do not write. E. E. Cummings

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