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The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
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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one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
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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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what if a much of a which of a wind gives the truth to summer's lie bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun and yanks immortal stars awry?
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And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
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Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.
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There is no music unless the drum and the drummer are one.
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The mind is its own beautiful prisoner. Mind looked long at the sticky moon opening in dusk her new wings then decently hanged himself,one afternoon. The last thing he saw was you naked amid unnaked things.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses
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Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
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A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues
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...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds
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An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects
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The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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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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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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