Zitate von E.E. Cummings

„Nicht tot sein heißt noch nicht lebendig sein.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„Ich trage Dein Herz bei mir.
Ich trage es in meinem Herzen.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„lovers alone wear sunlight“

—  E.E. Cummings

91
95 poems (1958)

„unbeingdead isn't beingalive“

—  E.E. Cummings

31
73 poems (1963)

„Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„as small as a world and as large as alone
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea“

—  E.E. Cummings

Variante: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
Quelle: 100 Selected Poems

„Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.“

—  E.E. Cummings

Variante: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.

„it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you“

—  E.E. Cummings

92
95 poems (1958)
Variante: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

„in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me“

—  E.E. Cummings

„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
Variante: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

„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)
Kontext: 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 will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness“

—  E.E. Cummings

Variante: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Quelle: Poems, 1923-1954

„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

65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
XAIPE (1950)

„The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.“

—  E.E. Cummings

„Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star…“

—  E.E. Cummings

"being to timelessness as it's to time" (1958)