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E. E. Cummings / Poet

yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds

E. E. Cummings / Poet

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

E. E. Cummings / Poet

who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you

E. E. Cummings / Poet

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

E. E. Cummings / Poet

And now you are and I am and we're a mystery which will never happen again.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

E. E. Cummings / Poet

notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

E. E. Cummings / Poet

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

E. E. Cummings / Poet

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

E. E. Cummings / Poet

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time - ours is the now and here of freedom. Come.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

E. E. Cummings / Poet

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

E. E. Cummings / Poet

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

E. E. Cummings / Poet

that strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

E. E. Cummings / Poet

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness

E. E. Cummings / Poet

The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead."

E. E. Cummings / Poet

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

E. E. Cummings / Poet

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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