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The Library of Love
i carry your heart with me
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this is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart
The Gemstone Line
How does it sound? Why does it work?
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A note from Thomas, Head Librarian
This one is short enough to memorise — and worth it. Cummings rewards readers who slow down enough to honour the parentheses. Treat them like a held breath.
The poem
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)
Where to from here? I have a few thoughts.
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