4 Patchin Place / e.e. cummings
4 Patchin Place
One-time home of “Poet and Painter” e.e. cummings (d. 1962) and his wife, model and photographer Marion Morehouse (d.1969)
“—do lovers love? why then heaven and hell.
Whatever sages say and fool, all’s well”
Place here by the e.e. cummings Society and the City of New York Landmarks Preservation Commission.
e.e. cummings
1894-1962
The poet and painter, who made art of commas and parentheses, lived here for the last forty years of his life. He characterized himself as “an author of pictures, a draughtsman of words.”
New York Landmark Preservation Foundation.
Marker is on Patchin Place.
Courtesy hmdb.org
