e. e. cummings
e. e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth14 October 1894
CityCambridge, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Only by you my heart always moves.
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
The eyes of my eyes are opened.
We can never be born enough.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
love is the every only god