QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

i carry your heart with me by ee cummings



So I feel like sharing with you a beautiful poem by an American poet, ee cummings. I know you don't usually read poetry, much less in English, but I think you may like this. Like Emily Dickinson, he wrote simple poems, easy to understand. He experimented with syntax, punctuation and spelling (no, I made no mistakes: He never used capital letters). I really enjoy poets like him, I hope you do too.

So this is it:


i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


ee cummings

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