“life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis”

— E.E. Cummings

Four VII
is 5 (1926)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis" by E.E. Cummings?

E.E. Cummings photo

E.E. Cummings208

American poet 1894–1962

Related quotes

“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

Jean Paul Sartre No Exit

Source: No Exit (1944)

“The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.”

Thomas Browne book Christian Morals

Part III, Section XXIX
Christian Morals (first pub. post. 1716)

“The art of the parenthesis is one of the great secrets of eloquence in Society.”

Nicolas Chamfort (1741–1794) French writer

L’art de la parenthèse est un des grands secrets de l’éloquence dans la Société.
Maximes et Pensées, #243
Maximes and Thoughts, #243

“Documents are full of paragraphs. But the paragraphs don't have name. So, we can't talk about the paragraphs.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

A Few Improvement to Erlang

“I think that we do not deserve life, I think that religions have been and continue to be instruments of domination and death.”

José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.

“I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.”

Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.
And neither one particularly appeals to me.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

From the song "Nowhere Fast"
From songs

“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

Baruch Spinoza book Ethics

Part IV, Prop. LXVII
Ethics (1677)

Related topics