Damn the Circus
Damn everything but the circus! …damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won’t get into the circle, that won’t enjoy, that won’t throw its heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence… --e.e. cummings I’ve tried to track down the source of this quote and found nothing but head scratching. “The first sentence is from Act I, Scene II of e.e. cummings play: Him. It is also known as "the acrobat's passage". The rest of the quote was apparently written by someone else. It does not appear in the play (published in 1927). "Damn everything but the circus!" is original with cummings, although often attributed to a female author, who may have used the quote as a title for a book. URL: https://able2know.org/topic/46665-1 Others contend It is not a poem but a part of a series of lectures titles "i Six Nonlectures" Comprising...