E. E. Cummings: Citations en anglais
“By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.”
E.E. Cummings The Enormous Room
Source: The Enormous Room
“We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go”
E.E. Cummings livre 1 × 1
XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)
Variante: listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go
Source: Selected Poems
“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“As small as a world as large as alone.”
"maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962
Variante: may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
Contexte: milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone
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
“Awake, chaos:we have napped.”
Source: Complete Poems, 1913-1962
“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man”
E.E. Cummings livre 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), X
Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
i : six nonlectures (1953)
“All in green went my love riding
on a great horse of gold
into the silver dawn.”
E.E. Cummings livre Tulips and Chimneys
Tulips and Chimneys (1923) IV
Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams
Now we have a hero whose heart has gone to his head and a villain whose head has gone to his heart.
A Foreword to Krazy (1946)
E.E. Cummings livre 1 × 1
he didn't believe it,no <p> sir
XIII : plato told
1 x 1 (1944)
