Selected Poems, 1923-1958 Quotes

“(While you and i have lips and voices which
are for kissing and to sing with
who cares if some oneeyed son of a bitch
invents an instrument to measure Spring with?

each dream nascitur, is not made . . .)”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems, 1923-1958

“(and down went
my Uncle
Sol

and started a worm farm)”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems, 1923-1958

“Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down

on it
and because you are
forever making poems in the lap
of death Humanity

i hate you”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems, 1923-1958

“there is a lady, whose name is Afterwards
she is sitting beside young death, is slender;
likes flowers.”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems, 1923-1958

“in thy beauty is the dilemma of flutes

thy eyes are the betrayal
of bells comprehended through incense”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems, 1923-1958