E.E. Cummings

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October 14, 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States

died

September 03, 1962

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Edward Estlin Cummings, popularly known as e.e. cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, several plays and essays, numerous drawings, sketches, and paintings, as well as two novels. He is remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.

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Average rating: 4.33 · 20,909 ratings · 877 reviews · 84 distinct works

	100 Selected Poems 4.37 avg rating — 7,038 ratings — published 1954 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Complete Poems, 1904-1962 4.41 avg rating — 5,738 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, Richard S. Kennedy (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 2,294 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tulips and Chimneys by E.E. Cummings, Richard S. Kennedy (Introduction) 4.43 avg rating — 537 ratings — published 1923 — 4 editions	My rating:
	95 Poems by E.E. Cummings, George James Firmage (Editor) 4.37 avg rating — 500 ratings — published 1958 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Enormous Room 3.91 avg rating — 563 ratings — published 1922 — 51 editions	My rating:
	I Six Nonlectures 4.25 avg rating — 289 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	AnOther E. E. Cummings by E.E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John Rocco 4.37 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of e. e. cummings by E.E. Cummings, Richard S. Kennedy (Editor), George James Firmage (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	e. e. cummings: A Selection of Poems 4.40 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1963 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

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“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings

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“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E.E. Cummings

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