i carry your heart with me

##### i carry your heart with meE. E. Cummings

i 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 you

here 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 apart

i 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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