Showing posts with label E.E. Cummings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E.E. Cummings. Show all posts

Thursday, June 3, 2021

Quote of the Day (E.E. Cummings, on Love, ‘The Voice Under All Silences’)

“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.” —American poet E.E. Cummings (1894-1962), “being to timelessness as it’s to time,” in E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (2013)

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Quote of the Day (E.E. Cummings, on Why ‘Nobody Else Can Be Alive for You’)



"Remember one thing only: that it's you—nobody else—who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you. "— American poet E.E. Cummings (1894-1962), I: Six Nonlectures (1953)