My roommate has a mild obsession with e.e. cummings. All over one wall of her bedroom there are quotes and snippets of his poems. I believe her passion for him has rubbed off a little on me.
Please listen to Kate McGarry sing the following poem on her album, If Less Is More ... Nothing Is Everything:
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 the 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)
And you can listen to it sung, beautifully I may add, right
here