e.e. cummings
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born
December 13, 1901
died
September 03, 1962
gender
male
place of birth
Cambridge, Massachusetts, The United States
genre
Poetry
about this author
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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100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.41 — 2,120 ratings — published 1959 3 editions |
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E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.57 — 1,359 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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Selected Poems by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.41 — 429 ratings — published 1994 2 editions |
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Tulips & Chimneys by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.46 — 267 ratings — published 1976 3 editions |
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95 Poems by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.39 — 229 ratings — published 1958 4 editions |
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The Enormous Room by e.e. cummings avg rating 3.98 — 200 ratings — published 1922 18 editions |
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i--six nonlectures (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.22 — 186 ratings — published 1953 4 editions |
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Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E.E. Cummings, New Edition by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.38 — 149 ratings — published 1983 3 editions |
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Another E. E. Cummings by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.36 — 124 ratings — published 1996 3 editions |
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Is 5 by e.e. cummings avg rating 4.38 — 117 ratings — published 1983 4 editions |
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
— e.e. cummings
— e.e. cummings
tags:
courage
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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
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
"To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
— e.e. cummings
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
— e.e. cummings
tags:
poetry
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