October 14th
i12bent: October 14 was the birthday of the great American poet e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962). A pacifist, cummings was interred during WW I. Poetically he sucked up influences from Dada, symbolism, and imagist poets. Some of his forms are traditional, sonnet-like, but his poetic syntax and orthography is always challenging. He is among the most popular Modernist poets. ************* i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling)                                                            i fearno fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i wantno world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meantand whatever a sun will always sing is youhere 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 growshigher 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)— e.e. cummings

i12bent:

October 14 was the birthday of the great American poet e.e. cummings (1894 - 1962). A pacifist, cummings was interred during WW I. Poetically he sucked up influences from Dada, symbolism, and imagist poets. Some of his forms are traditional, sonnet-like, but his poetic syntax and orthography is always challenging. He is among the most popular Modernist poets.

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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)

— e.e. cummings

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