E.E. Cummings: Trending quotes (page 8)

“If you're a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society's socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But if—whisper it—you're a 100% hidebound reactionary, the foot's in the other shoe. Ignatz Mouse then stands forth as a hero, pluckily struggling to keep the flag of free will flying; while Offissa Pupp assumes the monstrous mien of a Goliath, satanically bullying a tiny but indomitable David. Well, let's flip the coin—so: and lo! Offissa Pupp comes up. That makes Ignatz Mouse "tails."”

“plato told
him:he couldn't
believe it(jesus told him; he
wouldn't believe
itlao tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or not)you
told him:i told
him; 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 be
that love are in we, that love are in we”

“on forever's very now we stand”

“The whole truth…
sings only —and all lovers are the song”

“Mostpeople have been heard
screaming for international
measures that render hell rational —i thank heaven somebody's crazy
enough to give me a daisy”

“blossoming are people…
all the earth has turned to sky
…and i am you are i am we”

“Time's a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)”

“poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality…. poetry is being, not doing…. if poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about selfstyled obligations and duties and responsibilities...”

“because it's Spring
thingS dare to do people”

“Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain…
all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep”

“love is more thicker than forget
…it is more sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky”

“the axis of the universe
—love”

“and liars kill their kind
but' her, my 'love creates love only' our”

“hugest whole creation may be less
incalculable than a single kiss”

“a million thousand hundred nothings seem
—we are himself's own self; his very him”

“all ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again”

“out of the mountain of his soul
comes a keen pure silence”