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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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More quotes by e. e. cummings
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
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-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.
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wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers.
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and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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Life ,for eternal us,is now
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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
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how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
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What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
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We can never be born enough.
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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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Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.
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i do not know what it is about you that closes and opensonly something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
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