E. E. Cummings

Now What Were Motionless Move

Now What Were Motionless Move - meaning Summary

Love Suspends Ordinary Gravity

Cummings celebrates an ecstatic, transformative love that lifts the lovers out of ordinary time and consequence. The speaker frames the beloved as a miracle that animates stillness, making them feel more alive than anyone or fate. He offers protection and urges shared daring—walking "in the air" and dancing above fear, tomorrow, and yesterday. The poem insists on focusing solely on love as the sustaining, world-changing force.

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now what were motionless move(exists no miracle mightier than this:to feel) poor worlds must merely do,which then are done; and whose last doing shall not quite undo such first amazement as a leaf-here's one more than each creature new(except your fear to whom i give this little parasol, so she may above people walk in the air with almost breathing me)-look up:and we'll (for what were less than dead)dance,i and you; high(are become more than alive)above anybody and fate and even Our whisper it Selves but don't look down and to -morrow and yesterday and everything except love

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