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“that strictly(and how)scienti
fic land of supernod
where freedom is compulsory
and only man is god.”

E.E. Cummings

"of all the blessings which to man" in Complete Poems II (1968), p. 544

“now I lay me down to dream of(nothing
i or any somebody or you
can begin to begin to imagine) something which nobody may keep.”

E.E. Cummings

44
73 poems (1963)

“a man who had fallen among thieves
lay by the roadside on his back
dressed in fifteenthrate ideas
wearing a round jeer for a hat”

E.E. Cummings

One XXVIII
is 5 (1926)

“i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth”

E.E. Cummings

65
XAIPE (1950)

“What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.”

E.E. Cummings

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)

“they flock and they flee through the thunder of seem
though the stars in their silence
say Be.”

E.E. Cummings

29
73 poems (1963)

“true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who;”

E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVI

“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.”

E.E. Cummings

"Forward to an Exhibit: II" (1945)

“my father moved through dooms of love
through sames of am through haves of give
singing each morning out of each night
my father moved through depths of height”

E.E. Cummings

34
50 Poems (1940)

“each ignorant gladness —unteaches what despair preaches”

E.E. Cummings

90
95 poems (1958)

“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.”

E.E. Cummings

A Poet's Advice (1958)

“i feel that(false and true are merely to know)
Love only has ever been, is, and will ever be, So”

E.E. Cummings

33
XAIPE (1950)

“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." This being so, our three ring circus is art—for to contend that the spectacle in question is not an authentic manifestation of "beauty" is as childish, as to dismiss the circus on the ground that it is "childish," is idiotic.”

E.E. Cummings

"The Adult, the Artist and the Circus." Vanity Fair (October 1925)

“the courage to receive time's mightiest dream”

E.E. Cummings

3
95 poems (1958)

“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”

E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1

XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)

“the cunning the craven
… they live for until
though the sun in his heaven
says Now”

E.E. Cummings

29
73 poems (1963)

“unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home”

E.E. Cummings

91
95 poems (1958)

“nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined, therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes”

E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXIV

“more each particular person is(my love)
alive than every world can understand
and now you are and i am now and we're
a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before—
and shining this our now must come to then”

E.E. Cummings

69
XAIPE (1950)