most people are perfectly afraid of silence - E. E. Cummings

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most people are perfectly afraid of silence

E. E. Cummings

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About E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14 1894 – September 3 1962) was an American poet. Because of the typography used in many of his works it has become a widespread tradition for his name to be presented in lower case as e. e. cummings, though he himself continued to use uppercase letters in signing his own name.

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Birth Name: Edward Estlin Cummings

Alternative Names: e. e. cummings • E. Estlin Cummings • e e cummings • EE cummings • Edward Eatlin Cummings

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Additional quotes by E. 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

nothing except the impossible shall occur

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.
An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself — whoever himself may be — is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.