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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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i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)
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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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when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
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Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
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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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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
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all nothing's only our hugest home the most who die, the more we live
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O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.
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When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man
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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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And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
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And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]
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True wars are never won.
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Lovers alone wear sunlight.
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someones married their everyones laughed their cryings and did their dance (sleep wake hope and then) they said their nevers they slept their dream
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