E. E. Cummings quotes - page 6

twice I have lived forever in a smile. (E. E. Cummings)
I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky. View quote
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his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine. View quote
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Your head is a living forest full of songbirds. View quote
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may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living. View quote
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Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you. View quote
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nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands. View quote
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And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms. View quote
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise. View quote
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who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you. View quote
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you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young, whatever life you wear it will become you; and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become. (E. E. Cummings)
Your homecoming will be my homecoming. View quote
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it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs. View quote
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in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems. View quote
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If 180 million people want to be undead, that's their funeral, but I happen to like being alive. View quote
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the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy. View quote
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility. View quote
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Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. View quote
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The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism into the secret glories it contains. View quote
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Like the burlesk comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. View quote
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our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more. (E. E. Cummings)
Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death. View quote
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being. View quote
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hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young. View quote
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what time is it? its is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true... View quote
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Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 14, 1894
Died: September 3, 1962
Quotes count: 232
Wikipedia: E. E. Cummings

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