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...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are givenand given is how beautifully snow)
e. e. cummings
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e. e. cummings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 14
Died: 1962
Died: September 3
Novelist
Painter
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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