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Letter "E" » E. E. Cummings Quotes
«and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm»
«Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the sky of the sky of a tree called life;Which grows higher than 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.»
«I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all the roses.»
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«Why do you paint?For exactly the same reason I breathe.That?s not an answer.There isn?t any answer.How long hasn?t there been any answer?As long as I can remember.And how long have you written?As long as I can remember.I mean poetry.So do I.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
«Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn?t matter a very good God damn...»
Author: E. E. Cummings
«Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.Easy?Of course?you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands.I never met him.Who?Everybody.Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting?I am.Pardon me?I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.Not all painting.No: housepainting is representational.And what does a housepainter represent?Ten dollars an hour.In other words, you don?t want to be serious?It takes two to be serious.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
«Progress is a comfortable disease.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
«The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
«Nothing recedes like progress.»
Author: E. E. Cummings
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