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Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
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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Poet
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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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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Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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Nobody else can be alive for you nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
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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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great men burn bridges before they come to them
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Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
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O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.
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that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you
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Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.
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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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