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great men burn bridges before they come to them
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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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
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Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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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 youand if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.
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for whenever men are right they are not young
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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I spill my bright incalculable soul
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when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
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Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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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.
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Buffalo Bill's defunct
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There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
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No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
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