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e.e. cummings’ advice to students
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feeling through words.
This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel- but that’s thinking or believing or knowing: not feeling. And poetry is feeling- not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anyone who isn’t a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else.
We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time—and whenever we do it, we’re not poets.
If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you’ve written one line of one poem, you’ll be very lucky indeed.
And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world—unless you’re not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn’t.
It’s the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.e. e. cummings
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Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.
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maisüdamai
Küüned valjult vajund selga.
Ihust ja hingest tahan luuletada,
nii, et rinnust välja annab tirida,
mis varjul meeles või keeles.
Sõna päris alles siis,
kui läbind filtri südames.
Oh, antaks jõudu, vajuda
läbi mustja mulla
sinna kogu oleva südamesse,
õhku paiskuda kui hingelind,
et hoitaks mind, saaks toitu
mu viimne elumõtteviiv.
Kui oleks valida vahel
taeva heleda ja tumekosmose,
võtaksin hõbevalge,
et neelaks sütt mu sisemus.
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Taak
Vale-Midase silmakoopas
kõik, mida puutud,
pudeneb tuhaks.
Tuult ei püüa,
isegi kaljukindlal väljal.
Läbi sõrme libiseb šanss,
miks kingiti avanss?
Kõrgehäälse rõõmu pooltoonid -
kibeduse naer on hukatus.
Kata kõrvad, liig isiklik akustika.
Petlik oled, lootus, ei saa
surematuks püüe mõõta
klaasi niisklibedat vett.
Jumaldan, et elus kõik vaid inimlik.
Mis me eksituse hind?
Kullast ilma jäi üks vana hing.
Armund silmal kilepilk.
Tule leia mind tuletuhast,
kohtume valevalge vihas.
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seal tarkuse ja vaimu linnas . nõidade ja töölisrahva püha vahevaikuses
vasaku kõrva kuulmekaja
viivuks alles ainult kanal
mida mööda libiseda
alpinist
ilma nukkideta
tugedeta
jooksed kahte lehte
paksult hullund halast
ainult armuharmoonia
heli kukub arooniad
küpsed nagu õunad
sinilill karjub
nii et
leevike jääb varju
kulu ei põle
sest mind miski ei kõrveta
nii ahnelt nagu tuli
koni õgib
ainult üks suudab
süüdata
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