who knows if the moon’s
E. E. Cummings’ poem “who knows if the moon’s” was originally published as “&: Seven Poems VII” in Cummings’ 1925 self-published collection “&”.
Edward Estlin Cummings was born on 14 October 1894 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, and he died on 3 September 1962 in Madison, New Hampshire, US, at the age of 67.A poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright, Cummings is often regarded as one of the most important American poets of the 20th century and is associated with modernist free-form poetry. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays, and several essays. Much of his work has idiosyncratic syntax and uses lowercase spellings for poetic expression.
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who knows if the moon’s a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky — filled with pretty people? (and if you and i should
get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon. why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people
than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody’s ever visited,where
always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves