 | BiographyType: Poet, Painter, Essayist, Author, and Playwright Born: October 14, 1894, Cambridge, Massachusetts Died: September 3, 1962 (aged 67), Madison, Ne Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, he as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century English literature. |
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long.
down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss
infinity pleased our parents
one inch looks good to us
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
trust your heart, if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward.
Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
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