Quote #91

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... [from 'being to timelessness as it's to time,' published 1958]

More from E. E. Cummings

  1. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
  2. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
  3. a salesman is an it that stinks [part of a title of one of his poems, published in 1944)
  4. Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
  5. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
  6. America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be g…
  7. my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world -unless you're not onl…
  8. It takes three to make a child.

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