ee cummings

[David Morris]

 Did I miss the Amazon.com book purchase link in my post?  I just liked the
words.  Didn't you?

David Morris

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:06 PM L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:

> 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/
>
> "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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