E.E. Cummings idézet
E.E. Cummings
Születési dátum: 14. október 1894
Halál dátuma: 3. szeptember 1962
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Idézetek E.E. Cummings
„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“
Változat: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Forrás: 100 Selected Poems
„Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.“
Változat: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.
„it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you“
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95 poems (1958)
Változat: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Változat: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
„To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.“
A Poet's Advice (1958)
Kontextus: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
„I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness“
Változat: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Forrás: Poems, 1923-1954
„i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes“
65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
XAIPE (1950)