E. E. Cummings quotes - page 7

By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. (E. E. Cummings)
Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were. View quote
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it's so damn sweet when Anybody- ...makes you feel ...for once (imag -ine) You. View quote
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the great my darling happens to be that love are in we, that love are in we. View quote
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Mostpeople have been heard screaming for international measures that render hell rational -i thank heaven somebody's crazy enough to give me a daisy. View quote
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blossoming are people... all the earth has turned to sky ...and i am you are i am we. View quote
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Women and men (both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain... all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep. View quote
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love is more thicker than forget ...it is more sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky. View quote
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out of the mountain of his soul comes a keen pure silence. View quote
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now I lay me down to dream of(nothing i or any somebody or you can begin to begin to imagine) something which nobody may keep. View quote
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i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay great happening illimitably earth. (E. E. Cummings)
true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who. View quote
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my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height. View quote
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each ignorant gladness -unteaches what despair preaches. View quote
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nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time - and whenever we do it, we are not poets. View quote
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i feel that(false and true are merely to know) Love only has ever been, is, and will ever be, So. View quote
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So, ungentle reader, (as you and I value what we should ashamed-after witnessing a few minor circus-marvels-to call our "lives,") let us never be fooled into taking seriously that perfectly superficial distinction which is vulgarly drawn between the circus-show and "art" or "the arts." Let us not forget that every authentic "work of art" is in and of itself alive and that, however "the arts" may differ among themselves, their common function is the expression of that supreme alive-ness which is known as "beauty." This being so, our three ring circus is art-for to contend that the spectacle in question is not an authentic manifestation of "beauty" is as childish, as to dismiss the circus on the ground that it is "childish," is idiotic. View quote
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pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease: your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness. View quote
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the cunning the craven ... they live for until though the sun in his heaven says Now. View quote
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they work and they pray and they bow to a must though the earth in her splendor says May. View quote
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nothing except the impossible shall occur. (E. E. Cummings)
ye! the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned. View quote
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completely dare be beautiful. View quote
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when you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you(or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words,"freedom". You confuse freedom-the only freedom-with absolute tyranny... all over this socalled world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda. View quote
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though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose, roses(you feel certain) will only smile. View quote
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