Edward Estlin Cummings cytaty strona 7

„Życie to nie paragraf, a śmierć to nie nawias.”

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Edward Estlin Cummings książka Is 5

Źródło: Is 5, 1926

„Zawsze piękniejszą odpowiedź dostanie, kto zada piękniejsze pytanie.”

„Być nikim, ale sobą, w świecie, który robi wszystko, co w jego mocy, dniami i nocami, by zrobić z ciebie przeciętniaka, oznacza walkę w najcięższej bitwie, w jakiej dane było walczyć ludzkości i która nigdy się nie skończy.”

„Potrzeba odwagi, aby dorosnąć i stać się tym, kim naprawdę jesteś.”

To be nobody – but – yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. (ang.)

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

“the only man woman or child who wrote
a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical
errors “is dead”
beautiful Warren Gamaliel Harding
“is” dead
he's
“dead””

Edward Estlin Cummings: Cytaty po angielsku

“Life, for eternal us, is now”

W [ViVa] (1931) XVII

“they work and they pray
and they bow to a must
though the earth in her splendor
says May”

Introduction to Poems 1924-1954

“nothing except the impossible shall occur”

29
73 poems (1963)

“ye! the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned”

E.E. Cummings książka 1 × 1

XLII
1 x 1 (1944)

“without any doubt he was
whatever(first and last) most people fear most:
a mystery for which iv'e
no word except alive”

13
50 Poems (1940)

“no evil is
so worse than worst you fall in hate with love —human one mortally immortal i
can turn immense all time's because to why”

30
73 poems (1963)

“completely dare
be beautiful”

7
95 poems (1958)

“all which isn't singing is mere talking
…
and all talking's to oneself alone
but the very song of(as mountains
feel and lovers)singing is silence”

68
XAIPE (1950)

“how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any — lifted from the no
of all nothing — human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?”

32
73 poems (1963)

“and nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why men breathe—
because my father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all”

65
XAIPE (1950)

“It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake”

34
50 Poems (1940)

“when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man”

E.E. Cummings Him

Him (1927)

“when you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you(or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom". You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny…
all over this socalled world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.”

E.E. Cummings książka 1 × 1

Źródło: 1 x 1 (1944), XX

“though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose, roses(you feel
certain) will only smile”

Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

“The one…thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic period's credo) was what the poem said; it's socalled meaning … Thus it will be seen that, by the year 1900, one growing American boy had reached exactly that stage of "intellectual development" beyond which every ungrowing Marxist adult of today is strictly forbidden … ever to pass.”

72
95 poems (1958)

“A distinct throat. Which breathes. A head: small, smaller than a flower. With eyes and with lips. Lips more slender than light; a smile how carefully and slowly made, a smile made entirely of dream. Eyes deeper than Spring. Eyes darker than Spring, more new... These, these are the further miracles... the breasts. Thighs. The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!”

"i & you & is: Nonlecture Four"
i : six nonlectures (1953)

E.E. Cummings Him

Him (1927)

“Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good."”

You confuse freedom—the only freedom—with absolute tyranny…
all over this socalled world,hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.
Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams

“My theory of technique, if I have one, is very far from original; nor is it complicated. I can express it in fifteen words, by quoting The Eternal Question And Immortal Answer of burlesk, viz. "Would you hit a woman with a child?”

Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)

“my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world”

E.E. Cummings książka EIMI

No, I'd hit her with a brick." Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
EIMI (1933)

“An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction, superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world, nor does he live in some so-called universe, nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any number of "universes."”

unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
E. E. Cummings
A Poet's Advice (1958)

“So, ungentle reader, (as you and I value what we should ashamed—after witnessing a few minor circus-marvels—to call our "lives,") let us never be fooled into taking seriously that perfectly superficial distinction which is vulgarly drawn between the circus-show and "art" or "the arts." Let us not forget that every authentic "work of art" is in and of itself alive and that, however "the arts" may differ among themselves, their common function is the expression of that supreme alive-ness which is known as "beauty."”

As for a few trifling delusions like the "past" and "present" and "future" of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.
Re Ezra Pound (p. 69)
i : six nonlectures (1953)

“we sans love equals mob”

This being so, our three ring circus is art—for to contend that the spectacle in question is not an authentic manifestation of "beauty" is as childish, as to dismiss the circus on the ground that it is "childish," is idiotic.
"The Adult, the Artist and the Circus." Vanity Fair (October 1925)

“true wars are never won”

31
73 poems (1963)

E.E. Cummings książka 1 × 1

Źródło: 1 x 1 (1944), XXX

“no sunbeam ever lies”