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| E.E. Cummings |
The sonnets of e.e. cummings tells us a lot about love. Love may live quietly inside you. It may suffer, but don't all our divinities suffer great trials and uncertain fates? Nevertheless, do not fear. Love gives us strength and hope to begin that which eventually ends. Whether you find love in the air, the land or the sea, love continues into timelessness (eternity).
being to timelessness as it’s to time,
love did no more begin than love will end;
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
love did no more begin than love will end;
where nothing is to breathe to stroll to swim
love is the air the ocean and the land
(do lovers suffer? all divinities
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad? only their smallest joy’s
a universe emerging from a wish)
proudly descending put on deathful flesh:
are lovers glad? only their smallest joy’s
a universe emerging from a wish)
love is the voice under all silences,
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
the hope which has no opposite in fear;
the strength so strong mere force is feebleness:
the truth more first than sun more last than star
—do lovers love? why then to heaven with hell.
Whatever sages say and fools, all’s well
Whatever sages say and fools, all’s well
You may not always be able to hear the voice of love, but it is there. Wait to feel it. It is the "voice under all silences."
http://eprints.ru.ac.za/4183/1/HUGHES-MA-TR93-55.pdf
http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/2011/09/e-e-cummings-fairy-tales.html
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