E. E. Cummings on born
E. E. Cummings134 quotes“Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?”
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And now you are and I am and we’re a mystery which will never happen again.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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