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Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.
e. e. cummings
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e. e. cummings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 14
Died: 1962
Died: September 3
Novelist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.
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...and down they forgot as up they grew.
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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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Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
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who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you
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If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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