e. e. cummings Quotes - Page 6

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• Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

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  Writing, Poetry, Sake

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• his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

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  Heart, Wine, Water

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

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• O sweet spontaneous earth

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  Sweet, Earth, Spontaneous

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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  Littles, Matter, Obsession

  1926 is 5, foreword.

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• somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

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  Eye, Silence, Gestures

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

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  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.10, C.H.Beck

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• Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

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  Love, Sweet, Spring

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• wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.

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  Spring, Flower, Fate

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

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  Life, Sweet, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

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  Ocean, Men, Sky

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

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  Flower, Men, Dirt

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• deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

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  Love, Dream, Deeds

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• -tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

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  Moving, Addresses, Tomorrow

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.84, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

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  Moon, Sun, Romantic Poetry

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.

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  Beautiful, Mistake, Two

  "Him". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1927.

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• A world of made is not a world of born

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  World, Born, Made

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.89, Grove Press

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• A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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  Inspiring, Rain, Fall

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

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  Rain, Small Hands, Hands

  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• Certainly the most obvious . . . example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper. The tabloid newspaper actually means to the typical American of the era what the Bible is popularly supposed to have meant to the typical Pilgrim Father: viz. a very present help in times of trouble, plus a means of keeping out of trouble via harmless, since vicarious, indulgence in the pomps and vanities of this wicked world.

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  Father, Mean, Eye

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• Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)

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  Dream, Eye, Your Smile

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• The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."

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  Cute, Children, Simple

  "ViVa". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1931.

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• What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

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  Stars, Different, Different Times

  "Selected Poems".

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• And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

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  Beauty, Spring, Men

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• my sweet old etcetera aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds) of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)

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  Mother, Dream, Sweet

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

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  Born, Happens, Died

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