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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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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Lessons hide in his wrinkles. Bells ding in the oldness of eyes. Did he by, any chance, tell children that there are such monstrous things as peace and goodwill...a corrupter of youth no doubt.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.
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(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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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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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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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
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And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
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Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise
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We can never be born enough.
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more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then
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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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since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid
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