e. e. cummings Professions : PoetBorn : October 14, 1894Died : September 3, 1962 Browse All Authors Top 268 quotes by e. e. cummings The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead." e. e. cummings simplecutechildren Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands. e. e. cummings playerheartmen 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 e. e. cummings flowerrainsleep 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. e. e. cummings silencesongtalking Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence. e. e. cummings inwardcirclesheart 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 e. e. cummings thievesmenideas 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. e. e. cummings eyemeanfather May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old. e. e. cummings heartbirdmen The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being. e. e. cummings verticalmysticismsensual The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be-- e. e. cummings fightingtryingmen how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You? e. e. cummings breathingtouchingdoubt Nothing recedes like progress. e. e. cummings progress since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things? e. e. cummings who-caressyntaxfeelings Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come. e. e. cummings slavespaceenough worms are the words but joy's the voice e. e. cummings voicefeelingsjoy all nothing's only our hugest home; e. e. cummings emptinessdieshome someones married their everyones e. e. cummings marriagedreamsleep hopes dance best on bald men's hair e. e. cummings hopehairmen 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. e. e. cummings prayerdoglove my e. e. cummings mothertalkingfather Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
