e. e. cummings Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

  "you shall above all things be glad and young" l. 13 (1938)

• may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Bird, Secret

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.

  e. e. cummings

  Bird, Songbirds, Forests

• it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers clutch his heart, as mine in time not far away; if on another's face your sweet hair lay in such a silence as i know,or such great writhing words as, uttering overmuch, stand helplessly before the spirit at bay; if this should be, i say if this should be- you of my heart, send me a little word; that i may go unto him, and take his hands, saying, Accept all happiness from me. Then shall i turn my face,and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Strong, Heart

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile

  e. e. cummings

  Love Yourself, Heart, Sunday

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Dog, Prayer

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

• And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

  e. e. cummings

  Bird, Your Smile, Arms

• May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Men, Bird

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