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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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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If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
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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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Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
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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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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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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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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
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Time's a strange fellow more he gives than takes (and he takes all).
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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.
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