“Only the artist in yourselves is more truthful than the night.”

— E. E. Cummings, Essay in Oscar Williams (ed.), The War Poets, 1945

About E. E. Cummings

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

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

“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.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”