“A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn't.”
About E. E. Cummings
14 October 1894–3 September 1962
In the sun-dappled streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 1894, Edward Estlin Cummings entered the world with a quiet promise of rebellion that would one day shatter the conventions of American poetry. Known to family and friends simply as Estlin, and to the world as E.E. Cummings—or, in the lowercase…