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guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders
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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one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
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Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)
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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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O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.
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O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
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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.
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True wars are never won.
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yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds
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Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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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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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
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here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
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time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough
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Time's a strange fellow more he gives than takes (and he takes all).
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
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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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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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