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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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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.
„the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses“
Quelle: Selected Poems
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.“
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“
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95 poems (1958)
Variante: it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
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.
Variante: I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air.
Quelle: Poems, 1923-1954
65 - This poem was used by Eric Whitacre for an a capella SATB chorus titled "i thank you God".
XAIPE (1950)
