“true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who”

— E. E. Cummings, 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVI

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.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

“The heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.”

“The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret.”

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”

“I have learnt that all men live not by care for themselves, but by love.”