i carry your heart with me by E. E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me
E. E. Cummingsi 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 youhere 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 soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars aparti carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
MARGINALIA
Happy birthday, dear sir. The world is still mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful 🙂
ABOUT E. E. CUMMINGS
Edward Estlin (E.E.) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cummings earned both his BA and MA from Harvard, and his earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). In 1922 he published his first book, The Enormous Room, a fictionalized account of his French captivity. Cummings’ first collection of poems, Tulips and Chimneys, appeared in 1923. Another collection quickly followed: XLI Poems, also in 1925. By the time of his death in 1962 Cummings held a prominent… (more)
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Siân Davies (@MISSSIANDAVIES)
Breathtaking, E. E. Cummings you carry my heart.
Grace Villarey (@greycee19)
I’ve always loved this poem since I heard it in the movie..”in My shoes” with Cameron Diaz
Brenda J Volkmann
Thank you for this site.
You have made my day.
“I Carry Your Heart With Me”,
I read as my vows at my second marriage to the absolute love of my life. I am still mourning his passing of 24 April 2025. I chat with him every evening as I’m drifting off to sleep, BJV to KRV.