Can anyone give me lines from E.E Cummings?

Question

some lines please from his poems. :) thanks

Answer 1

This page has a number of E.E Cummings poems listed. But for some reason, all the work he has posted online has really bad grammar. You may have to struggle through some of it, but a lot of his work is there, even if the grammar is terrible. There is also a lot of poetry sites you can search from, or even look up quotes on Google. I'm not sure which poems you're specifically looking for, so I'd thought I'd leave that open for you.

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~thier/ee/

I, like you, really like E.E Cummings but I don't have a lot of his work memorized. I love "I carry your heart."

I carry your heart with me

I carry it in my heart

I am never without it

Anywhere I go you go, my dear;

And whatever is done

By only me is your doing, my darling

I fear no fate

For you are my fate, my sweet

I want no world

For beautiful you are my world, my true

And it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

And whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows

Here is the root of the root

And the bud of the bud

And 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.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Well, I don't memorise lines from his poem but there are some lines I've read before that I can think off the top of my head.

For example :

"here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud

and the sky of the sky of a tree called life" which is from his "i carry your heart with me" poem.

The other example I can give is

"your mind drifting with chuckling rubbish of pearl weed coral and stones" from his "because i love you)last night" poem.