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a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
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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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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the other guineahen died of a broken heart and we came to New York. I used to sit at a table,drawing wings with a pencil that kept breaking and i kept remembering how your mind looked when it slept for several years,to wake up asking why. So then you turned into a photograph of somebody who’s trying not to laugh at somebody who’s trying not to cry
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Only by you my heart always moves.
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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.
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Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?
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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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that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
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May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.
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