E. E. Cummings was an American poet known for his unique poetic style and linguistic innovation. His works are typically presented in free verse, emphasizing colloquialism and personal expression. Cummings' poetry often breaks traditional grammatical rules, using innovative spelling and punctuation to create unique visual and auditory effects.
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Source: Selected poems
“When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”
Source: Selected poems
“Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.”
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.”
“Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is”
“Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh”
“The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.”
“An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.”
Source: The Theatre of E. E. Cummings
Source: Is 5
Source: XAIPE
Source: AnOther E.E. Cummings
“Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
Source: 100 Selected Poems
Source: Selected poems
“Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all).”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .”
Source: Selected poems
“since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?”
“worms are the words but joy's the voice”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
Source: 100 Selected Poems
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Spring is like a perhaps hand”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
Source: Selected poems
“hopes dance best on bald men's hair”
Source: Selected poems
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“all nothing's only our hugest home; the most who die, the more we live”
Source: Selected poems
“I spill my bright incalculable soul”
Source: Tulips and Chimneys
“There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.”