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E.E. Cummings
Geburtstag: 14. Oktober 1894
Todesdatum: 3. September 1962
Edward Estlin Cummings war ein US-amerikanischer Dichter und Schriftsteller.
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„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
— E.E. Cummings
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
„To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.“
— E.E. Cummings
A Poet's Advice (1958), Context: Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
„i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes“
— E.E. Cummings
XAIPE (1950), 65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
