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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--
e. e. cummings
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e. e. cummings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 14
Died: 1962
Died: September 3
Novelist
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
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-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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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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Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose.
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Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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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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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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You shall above all things be glad and young.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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