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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
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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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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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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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how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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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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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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time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough
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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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the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.
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It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake.
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