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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
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e. e. cummings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 14
Died: 1962
Died: September 3
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?
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The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
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Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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