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E.E. Cummings
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„a politician is an arse uponwhich everyone has sat except a man“
„it’s so damn sweet when Anybody—…makes you feel…for once(imag-ine) You“
„on forever’s very now we stand“
„Mostpeople have been heardscreaming for internationalmeasures that render hell rational —i thank heaven somebody’s crazyenough to give me a daisy“
„because it’s SpringthingS dare to do people“
„all ignorance toboggans into knowand trudges up to ignorance again“
„that strictly(and how)scientific land of supernodwhere freedom is compulsoryand only man is god.“
„Why do you paint?For exactly the same reason I breathe.That’s not an answer.There isn’t any answer.How long hasn’t there been any answer?As long as I can remember.And how long have you written?As long as I can remember.I mean poetry.So do I.“
„nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we are not poets.“
„my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world“
„So, ungentle reader, (as you and I value what we should ashamed—after witnessing a few minor circus-marvels—to call our “lives,”) let us never be fooled into taking seriously that perfectly superficial distinction which is vulgarly drawn between the circus-show and “art” or “the arts.” Let us not forget that every authentic “work of art” is in and of itself alive and that, however “the arts” may differ among themselves, their common function is the expression of that supreme alive-ness which is known as “beauty.”“
„All in green went my love ridingon a great horse of goldinto the silver dawn.“
„plato toldhim:he couldn’tbelieve it(jesus told him; hewouldn’t believeitlao tszecertainly toldhim, and general(yes mam)sherman;and even(believe itor not)youtold him:i toldhim; we told him“
„seeming’s enough for slaves of space and time—ours is the now and here of freedom. Come“
„the great my darling happens to bethat love are in we, that love are in we“
„The whole truth…sings only —and all lovers are the song“
„the axis of the universe—love“
„my father moved through dooms of lovethrough sames of am through haves of givesinging each morning out of each nightmy father moved through depths of height“
„i feel that(false and true are merely to know)Love only has ever been, is, and will ever be, So“
„pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness“
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