e. e. cummings Quotes - Page 10

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

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  Dream, Night, Men

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• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

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  Simplicity, Failing, Grows

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• Nothing recedes like progress.

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  Progress

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• O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

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  Clever, Heart, Thinking

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.102, Xist Publishing

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• worms are the words but joy's the voice

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  Voice, Joy, Feelings

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

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  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

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  Education, Believe, Intelligence

  "Sonnets - Realities" no. 1, l. 5 (1923)

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• since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

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  Fear, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Love, Dog, Prayer

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

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• one day anyone died i guess
  (and noone stooped to kiss his face)
  busy folk buried them side by side
  little by little and was by was

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  Death, Kissing, One Day

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.73, Grove Press

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

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  Bird, Your Smile, Arms

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• mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

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  Girl, Party, Men

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

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  Travel, Home, World

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

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  Mind, Fragility, Indecision

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women and men(both little and small)
  cared for anyone not at all
  they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
  sun moon stars rain

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  Stars, Rain, Moon

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

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  Love You, Land, America

  "next to of course god america i" l. 1 (1926)

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• What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?

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  Dream, Two, Forever

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

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  Remembrance, Miracle, Reborn

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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? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

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  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

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  Evolution, Bigger, Decided

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• Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

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  Home, Hell, Homeless

  "95 poems (91)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• someones married their everyones
  laughed their cryings and did their dance
  (sleep wake hope and then) they
  said their nevers they slept their dream

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  Marriage, Dream, Sleep

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair

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  Hate, Hair, Differences

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.86, Grove Press

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• a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

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  Men, Ideas, Thieves

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove Press

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• 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

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  Mother, Father, Talking

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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