Edward Estlin Cummings, znany jako E.E. Cummings lub e.e. cummings – amerykański poeta, dramaturg i malarz, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli nowojorskiej awangardy literackiej pierwszej połowy XX wieku. Wikipedia
„sercu zaufaj
gdy morza ogień ogarnie
(i żyj miłością
choć gwiazdy pędzą wspak)”
Źródło: zgłębij marzenia
„Życie to nie paragraf, a śmierć to nie nawias.”
Źródło: Is 5, 1926
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. (ang.)
“when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”
Źródło: 1 x 1 (1944), XX
Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams
"i & you & is: Nonlecture Four"
i : six nonlectures (1953)
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(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)
No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
EIMI (1933)
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)
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)
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.
"The Adult, the Artist and the Circus." Vanity Fair (October 1925)
"maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962
