e. e. cummings Quotes About Love

• Love is the whole and more than all.

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  1940 50 poems,'my father moved through dooms of love'.

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• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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  E. E. Cummings (1998). “No Thanks”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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  XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2

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• And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love

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  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

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  W (1931) "somewhere I have never travelled"

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

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  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

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• Lovers alone wear sunlight.

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  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

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  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

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  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

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  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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• Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

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• deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

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  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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