e. e. cummings Quotes - Page 8

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• XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

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  Writing, Giving, Mind

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.76, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.

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  Children, Eye, Wrinkles

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• when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

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  Life, Men, Determined

  '1 x 1' (1944) no. 26

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• -Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.

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  Morning, Kissing, Leaving

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• it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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  Trying, Use, Common

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• An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

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  Failure, Artist, Men

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “The Theatre of E. E. Cummings”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

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  Sweet, Spring, Naughty

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• No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.

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  Hate, Fall, Evil

  "95 poems (7)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; 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. Don't cry --the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids' flutter which says we are for eachother: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

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  Spring, Flower, Fate

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• Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

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  May, Months, Duty

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.97, Grove Press

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• Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset
  (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).

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  Beautiful, Sunset, Night

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• in a middle of a room stands a suicide sniffing a Paper rose smiling to a self "somewhere it is Spring and sometimes people are in real:imagine somewhere real flowers,but I can't imagine real flowers for if I could,they would somehow not Be real" (so he smiles smiling)"but I will not everywhere be real to you in a moment" The is blond with small hands "& everything is easier than I had guessed everything would be;even remembering the way who looked at whom first,anyhow dancing

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  Suicide, Spring, Real

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The courage to receive time's mightiest dream.

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  Dream

  "95 poems (3)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

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  Horse, Gold, Dawn

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile

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  Weed, Ifs And, Rose

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry

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  New York, Heart, Years

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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  Philosophy, Medicine, Nerves

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel

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  Children, Kissing, Lovers

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• Spring is like a perhaps hand

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  Hope, Spring, Hands

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

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  Moon, Sky, Cities

  1925 'Seven Poems, VII'. David Niven used the phrase for his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon (1975).

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• i have found what you are like the rain (Who feathers frightened fields with the superior dust-of-sleep. wields easily the pale club of the wind and swirled justly souls of flower strike the air in utterable coolness deeds of gren thrilling light with thinned newfragile yellows lurch and.press --in the woods which stutter and sing And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms;but i should rather than anything have(almost when hugeness will shut quietly)almost, your kiss

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  Rain, Flower, Sleep

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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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  Children, Father, America

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• Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

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  Space, Slave, Enough

  "95 poems (73)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• Spring slattern of seasons
  you have soggy legs
  and a muddy petticoat
  drowsy
  
  is your hair your
  eyes are sticky with
  dream and you have a sloppy body from
  
  being brought to bed of crocuses
  when you sing in your whisky voice
  the grass rises on the head of the earth
  and all the trees are put on edge
  
  spring
  of the excellent jostle of
  thy hips
  and the superior

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  Dream, Spring, Eye

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• the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

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  Moon, Fragments, Candy

  "Sonnets - Realities" no. 1, l. 11 (1923). Ellipsis in the original.

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