 | 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. |
when man determined to destroy
himself he picked the was
of shall and finding only why
smashed it into because
since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid
something genuine like a mark in a toilet, graced with guts and gutted with grace
And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.
O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
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