ee cummings

[L E Bryan]

Only $850+ per copy… :)

Or check it out from 4 different California State Universities.

Too bad my local one doesn’t have it. Maybe am interlibrary loan.

Lawrence

> On Nov 7, 2017, at 6:25 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/e-e-cummings-advice/ <https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/e-e-cummings-advice/>
> 
> "A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.
> This may sound easy. It isn’t.
> 
> A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or believing or thinking.
> 
> Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
> 
> 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."
> 
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