e e cummings

I've grown to appreciate e e cummings' poetry in the past year so I decided to read a book by him. I chose his six nonlectures to read over the Memorial Day weekend. I'll be quoting from the book the next few days.

"Let me cordially warn you, at the opening of these socalled lectures, that I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. Lecturing is presumably a form of teaching; and presumably a teacher is somebody who knows. I never did, and still don't, know. What has always fascinated me is not teaching, but learning."

I also feel this way, that I don't know. I also enjoy learning. I hope to be a life-long learner.

"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing to be so little reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and fairly judge them." (from Letters To A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke)

Any form of art always seems to be critiqued by others which makes it frightening to even attempt anything sometimes. Love seems so much more kind.