e. e. cummings Quotes - Page 9

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• how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?

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  Breathing, Touching, Doubt

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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  Snob, Humans, Human Beings

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

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  Hate, Love You, Forever

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.18, Grove Press

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• Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

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  Comedian, Movement, Burlesque

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• By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.

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  Way, Prison, Assured

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

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• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

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  Way, Born, Adages

  E. E. Cummings' foreword to a collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips (1946); later published in E. E. Cummings "A Miscellany Revised", 1965.

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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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• 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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• 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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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

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  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand 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 and shining this our now must come to then

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  Shining, Miracle, Alive

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your homecoming will be my homecoming

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  Homecoming

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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• hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young

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  Hate, Blow, Yesterday

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

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  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

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  Song, Talking, Silence

  "73 poems (32)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1962.

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• ...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

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  Rain, Night, Snow

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• for whenever men are right they are not young

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  Men, Young

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

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• The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

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  Soul, Mind, Cambridge

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

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• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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  Ignorance, Statistics, Knows

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.102, Grove Press

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• The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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  Ignorance, Causes, Chiefs

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• guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

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  Guilt, Causes, Obscene

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• maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o

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  Crush, Children, Hands

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• For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

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  Love Is, Giving, April

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• one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

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  Lying, Sleep, Rose

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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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