E.E. Cummings

E.E. Cummings

"Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."
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"Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves."
E.E. Cummings 100 Selected Poems
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"deeds cannot dream what dreams can do"
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"“since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid”"
E.E. Cummings E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
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"“when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because”"
E.E. Cummings 100 Selected Poems
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"“i do not know what it is about you that closesand opens;only something in me understandsthe voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”"
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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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"“twice I have lived forever in a smile”"
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"“may my heart always be open to littlebirds who are the secrets of livingwhatever they sing is better than to knowand if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungryand fearless and thirsty and suppleand even if it's sunday may i be wrongfor whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefullyand love yourself so more than trulythere's never been quite such a fool who could failpulling all the sky over him with one smile”"
E.E. Cummings E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
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"“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”"
E.E. Cummings Selected Poems
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"“life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis”"
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"“may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.”"
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"“listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go”"
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"“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”"
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"“i like my body when it is with yourbody. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.i like your body. i like what it does,i like its hows. i like to feel the spineof your body and its bones, and the trembling-firm-smooth ness and which i willagain and again and againkiss, i like kissing this and that of you,i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzzof your electric fur, and what-is-it comesover parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,and possibly i like the thrillof under me you so quite new.”"
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"his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine"
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"i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouthand leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyesto dash against darkness in the sleeping curves of my body Shall enter fingers of smooth masterywith chasteness of sea-girls Will i complete the mystery of my flesh I will rise After a thousand yearslippingflowers And set my teeth in the silver of the moon"
E.E. Cummings
"may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone."
E.E. Cummings
"life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis"
E.E. Cummings
"listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door; let’s go"
E.E. Cummings
"i like my body when it is with yourbody. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.i like your body. i like what it does,i like its hows. i like to feel the spineof your body and its bones, and the trembling-firm-smooth ness and which i willagain and again and againkiss, i like kissing this and that of you,i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzzof your electric fur, and what-is-it comesover parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,and possibly i like the thrillof under me you so quite new."
E.E. Cummings
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