The poem "I Carry Your Heart With Me" by EE Cummings has been a popular love poem and wedding choice for many years. The poem has sparked renewed interest since…
the poet
EE Cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings in 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died in North Conway, NH in 1962. Cummings earned a BA from Harvard in 1915 and delivered…
Cummings joined an American Red Cross Ambulance Corps in France during World War I. The French jailed him on suspicion of disloyalty, a false charge that landed Cummings in prison…
Cummings was a visual artist, playwright and novelist. After World War I, he studied art in Paris and adopted a cubist style in his artwork. Considering himself a painter as…
During his lifetime Cummings wrote over 900 poems, two novels, four plays and had at least half a dozen performances of his artwork.
Contrary to popular belief, Cummings never legalized his name as "ee cummings". His name should be properly capitalized.
The poem
EE Cummings' poetic style is unique and highly visual. Its typographic independence was an experiment in punctuation, spelling, and rule-breaking. His reading style forces a certain rhythm into the poem.…
Cummings' poem "I Carry Your Heart With Me" is about deep, profound love, the kind that can part the stars and transcend the soul or mind. The poem is easy…
The poem makes an excellent love song when set to music. Outstanding guitarist Michael Hedges set "I carry your heart" to music on his album Taproot. Hedges himself sings the…
More than 168 original poems by Cummings have been set to music.
Enjoy the words and feelings of this famous poem.
i carry your heart with me
I carry your heart with me (I carry it inside me
my heart) I'm never without it (nowhere
I go, you go, my love; and whatever is done
only with me is your work, my darling)
I'm afraid
no fate (because you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (because you are beautiful my world, my true)
and you are what a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing, you are
Here is the deepest secret that no one 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; what grows
higher than the soul can hope or the mind hide)
and that is the miracle that separates the stars
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)
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