May My Heart Always Be Open to Little
May My Heart Always Be Open to Little - meaning Summary
Openness as Chosen Youth
The poem advocates sustaining a childlike openness to wonder, urging the speaker to keep heart and mind receptive, hungry, and fearless. Cummings contrasts youthful receptivity with the stiffness of being "right," suggesting that certainty ages people. He prizes harmless foolishness, playful love, and the imaginative power to "pull all the sky over" oneself with a smile. The tone celebrates attentive vulnerability as a way to live fully.
Read Complete Analysesmay my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile
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