Poetry Quote by E.E. Cummings — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Who can tell truth from falsehood any more?”

“i like my body when it is with your”

“You have played,”

“may my heart always be open to little”

“listen: there’s a hell”

“i do not know what it is about you that closes”

“I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Only our love hath no decay;”

“I fancied my luck to be witnessing yet another full moon. True, I’d seen hundreds of full moons in my life, but they were not limitless. When one starts thinking of the full moon as a common sight that will come again to one’s eyes ad-infinitum, the value of life is diminished and life goes by uncherished. ‘This may be my last moon,’ I sighed, feeling a sudden sweep of sorrow; and went back to reading more of The Odyssey.”

“Night”

“Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.”

“A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.”