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You and I are more than you and I because it's we.
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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Time's a strange fellow more he gives than takes (and he takes all).
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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True wars are never won.
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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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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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Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.
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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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A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues
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And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]
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in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems
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We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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great men burn bridges before they come to them
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