E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and earned both his BA and MA from Harvard. His earliest poems were published in Eight Harvard Poets (1917). Cummings decided to become a poet when he was still a child. Between the ages of eight and twenty-two, he wrote a poem a day. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. He was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. 

This was spoken the day of my son's wedding and is the poem his bride Kate and Max asked me to speak at the ceremony…

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

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 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)

For you are my sun, my moon and all my stars.

— e.e. cummings (the final line comes from 'Silently, if…’)