Quotes from E.E. Cummings

Without a heart the animal is very very kind so kind it wouldn't like a soul and couldn't use a mind.

singing (though love be a day) for which girl art thou flowers bringing?

the blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe;

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

a noone who,till their and your returning, spends the forever of his loneliness dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Pull, my finger please.

And now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before.

anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down)

open your thighs to fate and(if you can withholding nothing)World, conceive a man

love is more than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail from "love is more than forget

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud. And the sky of the sky of a tree called life; Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.

losing through you what seemed myself,i find selves unimaginably mine;beyond sorrow's own joys and hoping's very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return —you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars

love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun more last than star

once is never the beginning of enough, is it

if you like my poems let them walk in the evening,a little behind you then people will say "Along this road i saw a princess pass on her way to meet her lover (it was toward nightfall) with tall and ignorant servants. — E.E. Cummings, "if you like my poems let them," Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E.E. Cummings . Liveright February 5, 2001) Originally published 1983.

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the moon is like a floating silver hell a song of adolescent ivory.

but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

Buffalo Bills defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what I want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

dead says come with me he says(andwhyevernot)into the round well and see the kitten and the penny and the jackknife and the rosebug and you say Sure you say (like that) sure i'll come with you you say for i like kittens i do and jackknives i do and pennies i do and rosebugs i do

Damn everything but the Circus!

and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart).

though wish and world go down,one poem yet shall swim