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You are my sun,my moon,and all my stars. (E. E. Cummings)
tommorow is our permanent address and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, we'll move away still further:into now. View quote
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(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. View quote
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seeming's enough for slaves of space and time -ours is the now and here of freedom. Come. View quote
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on forever's very now we stand. View quote
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Why do you paint; For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There isnt any answer. How long hasnt there been any answer; As long as I can remember. And how long have you written; As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I. View quote
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unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home. View quote
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more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before- and shining this our now must come to then. View quote
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Life,for eternal us,is now. View quote
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-when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man. View quote
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True wars are never won. (E. E. Cummings)
The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. View quote
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation. View quote
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects. View quote
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it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful. View quote
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The courage to receive time's mightiest dream. View quote
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Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. View quote
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Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is. View quote
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All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence. View quote
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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. View quote
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One's not half of two; two are halves of one. (E. E. Cummings)
Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality. View quote
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lovers alone wear sunlight. View quote
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most people are perfectly afraid of silence. View quote
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love is the every only god. View quote
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E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings - Image
Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 14, 1894
Died: September 3, 1962
Quotes count: 232
Wikipedia: E. E. Cummings

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