After paging through my collection of his:
I think having Cummings' "a leaf falls on loneliness" down someone's back would be incredible.
This is neither here nor there, since I do not have the back for it.
EDIT: Oh, and one for myself: I adore a line of Emerson's, and was wondering about it:
"The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all."
You can [maybe] see why I adore it, but the problem is that it addresses the reader. Would it be silly, do you think, to have "you" in a tattoo? Is there a way to express the essence of this quotation without "you" and without changing it drastically?
This is neither here nor there, since I do not have the back for it.
EDIT: Oh, and one for myself: I adore a line of Emerson's, and was wondering about it:
"The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all."
You can [maybe] see why I adore it, but the problem is that it addresses the reader. Would it be silly, do you think, to have "you" in a tattoo? Is there a way to express the essence of this quotation without "you" and without changing it drastically?