Showing posts with label E. E. Cummings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E. E. Cummings. Show all posts

March 14, 2012

Spring is like a perhaps hand


Spring is like a perhaps hand 
(which comes carefully 
out of Nowhere)arranging 
a window,into which people look(while 
people stare
arranging and changing placing 
carefully there a strange 
thing and a known thing here)and

changing everything carefully

spring is like a perhaps 
Hand in a window 
(carefully to 
and fro moving New and 
Old things,while 
people stare carefully 
moving a perhaps 
fraction of flower here placing 
an inch of air there)and

without breaking anything.

– E. E. Cummings

February 11, 2012

"such was a poet and shall be and is


who'll solve the depths of horror to defend
a sunbeam's architecture with his life:
and carve immortal jungles of despair
to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand"


– E. E. Cummings, from "no man, if men are gods"

January 12, 2012

losing through you what seemed myself;i find
selves unimaginably mine;beyond
sorrow’s own joys and hoping’s very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit’s born:
yours is the darkness of my soul’s return
–you are my sun,my moon,and all my stars
– E. E. Cummings, from "[silently if,out of not knowable]"