“As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“i am a little church(no great cathedral) far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities --i do not worry if briefer days grow… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“...we're a mystery which will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before...” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“ If "If freckles were lovely, and day was night, And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie, Life would be delight,--… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“may i feel, said he i'll squeal, said she just once, said he it's fun, said she may i touch, said he how much,… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too,… — e.e. cummings Copy Share
“(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… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go, you go, my dear.… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
“Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the… — E.E. Cummings Copy Share
