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Edward Estlin Cummings, plus connu sous le diminutif de e. e. cummings , est un poète, écrivain et peintre américain.

Son œuvre est composée de plus de deux mille neuf cents poèmes, de quelques pièces, d'essais, et de deux nouvelles ainsi que de nombreux dessins, esquisses et peintures. Il est l'un des grands poètes du XXe siècle et l'un des plus populaires. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. octobre 1894 – 3. septembre 1962
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E. E. Cummings: 208 citations0 J'aime

E. E. Cummings: Citations en anglais

“Life, for eternal us, is now”

E.E. Cummings

Introduction to Poems 1924-1954

“nothing except the impossible shall occur”

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XLII
1 x 1 (1944)

“completely dare
be beautiful”

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XAIPE (1950)

“when you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you(or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom."”

E.E. Cummings

You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny…
all over this socalled world,hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.
Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

“Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good."”

E.E. Cummings

Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

“my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world”

E.E. Cummings

unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
E. E. Cummings
A Poet's Advice (1958)

“An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction, superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world, nor does he live in some so-called universe, nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any number of "universes."”

E.E. Cummings

As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
i : six nonlectures (1953)

“we sans love equals mob”

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73 poems (1963)

“true wars are never won”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXX

“no sunbeam ever lies”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXX

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