Quote
"nothing except the impossible shall occur"
E. E. CummingsThe one...thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic — E. E. Cummings
"The one...thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic periods credo) was what the poem said; its socalled meaning ... Thus it will be seen that, by the year 1900, one growing American boy had reached exactly that stage of "intellectual development" beyond which every ungrowing Marxist adult of today is strictly forbidden ... ever to pass."
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings
author107 quotes
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his
More by E. E. Cummings
View all →E. E. CummingsQuote
"We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: theres a hell of a good universe next door; lets go"
E. E. CummingsQuote
"—when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man"
E. E. CummingsQuote
"what if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of its grave and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?"
E. E. CummingsQuote
"yes is a pleasant country... love is a deeper season than reason"
E. E. CummingsQuote
"What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way."
E. E. Cummings