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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings mostpeople are snobs.
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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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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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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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
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Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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Nobody else can be alive for you nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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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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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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An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.
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Buffalo Bill's defunct
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