by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962)
brain gesture
Language: English
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves and kisses are a better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry —the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life’s not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis
Text Authorship:
- by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings (1894 - 1962) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Regina A. Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956), "brain gesture", 2009 [ high voice and piano ], from e. e. cummings songs:, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2026-01-24
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Word count: 86