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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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The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.
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The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
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all nothing's only our hugest home the most who die, the more we live
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by living? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.
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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders
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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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It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
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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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What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
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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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Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
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