E. E. Cummings

Nothing False and Possible Is Love

Nothing False and Possible Is Love - meaning Summary

Love Defies Limits and Rules

Cummings presents love as an open, self-expanding force that resists falseness, obligation and command. Love is both generous and preserving, a positive "yes" to possibility rather than a rigid "must." The poem contrasts institutional constraints with a lived, growing intimacy in which lovers continually outgrow themselves. Images of depth, height, life and death emphasize love's paradoxical power to transcend limits while remaining rooted in shared, evolving "we."

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nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore is limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes must's a schoolroom in the month of may: life's the deathboard where all now turns when (love's a universe beyond obey or command,reality or un-) proudly depths above why's first because (faith's last doubt and humbly heights below) kneeling,we-true lovers-pray that us will ourselves continue to outgrow all whose mosts if you have known and i've only we our least begin to guess

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