“be of love (a little) more careful than of everything”
Date
1967
Credits
Format
- Poster 1707
Type of Work
- Finished work 5482
Techniques
- serigraph 39
Dimensions
18 × 15 in
This set of four prints celebrates the writing of Unitarian poet e.e. cummings with both the expressiveness of a poem and the boldness of a logo. Corita Kent (1918–1986) was head of the art department at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles and later an activist, printing phrases about the civil rights movement and antiwar messages.
A related piece is here: corita.org/piece/59-02
Here is the full poem:
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“be of love(a little)
More careful
Than of everything
guard her perhaps only
A trifle less
(merely beyond how very)
closely than
Nothing,remember love by frequent
anguish(imagine
Her least never the most
memory)give entirely each
Forever its freedom
(Dare until a flower,
understanding sizelessly sunlight
Open what thousandth why and
discover laughing)”