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“Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.”

E.E. Cummings

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
Context: A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.

Love , Hate , Dogs , Cats

“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

E.E. Cummings

A Poet's Advice (1958)
Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

World , Fight , Night

“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”

E.E. Cummings

Source: Selected Poems

“lovers alone wear sunlight”

E.E. Cummings

91
95 poems (1958)

Lovers

“in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me”

E.E. Cummings
Dreams , Time , Forgetting

“unbeingdead isn't beingalive”

E.E. Cummings

31
73 poems (1963)

Dead

“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”

E.E. Cummings
People , Feeling , Thinking

“as small as a world and as large as alone
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea”

E.E. Cummings

Variant: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Source: 100 Selected Poems

World , Sea

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

E.E. Cummings

Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.

Wise , Wedding , Love , Star

“it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”

E.E. Cummings

92
95 poems (1958)
Variant: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Singing , Sun

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

E.E. Cummings

Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variant: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Star , Bird , Learning , Singing

“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”

E.E. Cummings

Variant: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Source: Poems, 1923-1954

Sun

“i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes”

E.E. Cummings

65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
XAIPE (1950)

God , Dreams , Nature , Tree

“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.”

E.E. Cummings
Travel

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…”

E.E. Cummings

"being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)

For Wife , love , Relationship , Romantic