E. E. Cummings Quotes
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A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
A noone who,till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning
-tomorrow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now
(a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
-Before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
Sunlight is
(life and day are)only loaned:whereas
night is given(night and death and the rain
are given;and given is how beautifully snow)
(life and day are)only loaned:whereas
night is given(night and death and the rain
are given;and given is how beautifully snow)
Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
So truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star.
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star.
What if a much of a which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry?
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
All by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes
Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
The blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe;
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anyone else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.
i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air