Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A personal favorite of mine

"since feeling is first

who pays any attention

to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis"


--- e. e. cummings


Life is more than the form of its syntax.

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