3 E. E. Cummings Quotes on Meaning

E. E. Cummings quotes on meaning

14. life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

52. The one...thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic period's credo) was what the poem said; it's 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.

70. it's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until: :love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)