“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

— E. E. Cummings, 'i carry your heart with me' (poem, 1952)

About E. E. Cummings

American poet and painter known for unconventional typography and love poems such as 'i carry your heart with me'.

“Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel”

“Writing, I feel, is an art; and artists, I feel, are human beings.”

“Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.”

“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”