5 E. E. Cummings Quotes on Freedom

E. E. Cummings quotes on freedom

53. concerning this selfstyled world's greatest and most generous literary figure: who had just arrived in our nation's capitol, attired in half a GI uniform and ready to be hanged as a traitor by the only country which ever made even a pretense of fighting for freedom of speech Re Ezra Pound - poetry happens to be an art;and artists happen to be human beings.

54. An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction,superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world,nor does he live in some so-called universe,nor does he live in any number of 'worlds' or in any number of 'universes.' 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.

59. seeming's enough for slaves of space and time -ours is the now and here of freedom. Come

76. they work and they pray and they bow to a must though the earth in her splendor says May

83. now I lay me down to dream of(nothing i or any somebody or you can begin to begin to imagine) something which nobody may keep.