NYC #29: Patchin Place, Greenwich Village

 

 

At number 4:

'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.'

 

'4 PATCHIN PLACE

 

ONE-TIME HOME OF "POETandPAINTER" E. E. CUMMINGS (d. 1962) AND

HIS WIFE, MODEL AND PHOTOGRAPHER MARION MOOREHOUSE (d. 1969)

 

"--do lovers love?why the to heaven with hell,

Whatever sages say and fools,all's well"'

 

 

Djuna Barnes (1892–1982) also lived in Patchin Place, diagonally opposite Cummings's place, in a one-room apartment for forty-two years.