A biography for E.E. Cummingshasn’t been written yet.
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)”
“to hell with literaturewe want something redblooded”
“for every mile the feet gothe heart goes nine”
“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
“may I be I is the only prayer”
“And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.”
“Such was a poet and shall be and is-who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”
“I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.”
“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...”
“Awake,chaos:we have napped.”
“i think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell”
“O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.”
“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”
“it's springand the goat-footedballoonMan whistlesfarandwee”
“a pretty girl, who naked isis worth a million statues”
“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”
“for whenever men are right they are not young”
“As small as a world as large as alone.”
“I am an i poet.”
“love being such, or such,the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark”