A couple weeks ago I finally saw the movie Candy. A harrowing tale about two heroin addicts. The movie was...sad to say the least and I didn't get into it as deep as I thought I would just so that I could stay sane. But in the preview (which I watched several times before seeing the movie, sort of like looking over the cover art of a book to see if that book 'looks' good, I love aesthetic appeal...yadda yad) it has Heath Ledger speaking one of the most beautiful pieces of prose I may have ever heard other than All The Difference (Nature Camp thing), by e.e. cummings. Here it is, enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrudC0STJ0U
the lines are from
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
-usually I'm not much for sappy love poems, but this is different in a way I can't explain like,
the roses growing on the brick walls of my house
or the pine trees that lay past the creek where the bobcat tracks are
timeless in a sense that it could all rush away happily without you.
the complete poem
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)
e.e. cummings
watch the movie if you dare try to understand the power that drugs hold over people, but nature is a much more serious drug. It's what we are all born into. It can be sweet and sour and gorgeous breathtaking and life shattering.
Maybe that's why I love it so much. Eternally. I don't mind talking about it this way, where I live I can always touch it. Maybe not the mountains, which are so very enticing, but I've got the hills.
"When I first saw Candy, birds flew in the sky"
sweet paper rainshowers
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I really like the e.e. cummings thing. Not as much as all the difference but pretty close.
ReplyDeleteEspecially this line "here is the deepest secret nobody knows." It made me think back to yesterday when I was about to race the 4x8. I was getting really nervous, feeling like I was about to puke, and then all of a sudden something broke. And I felt peace. A sudden peace spread through my mind and I felt alright and ready to run.
It's something that we all miss out on most of the time. We're always freaking out and worrying and none of us see the deepest secret. That life stretches out much further and deeper than the little things we get caught up in, and when your heart is with another this makes much more sense. That if you can make the one you love feel better and see more clearly, everything is alright.
I find it really pretty, too.
ReplyDeleteIt is how I would love to say things to you, but say it in a more realistic way.
I admire E.E. so much now, he's got style.
Yesterday was serene, even more than break, I was completely at peace before my race.
Thank you for that.
E. E. Cummings is my favorite poet in the history of poetry.
ReplyDeleteKudos.
Oh, thanks, I've read some of his quotes on your blog. I'm in love with the way he uses words. So it was only fitting that I write about him, sometime.
ReplyDeleteThank you.