e. e. cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings

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

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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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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I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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It takes three to make a child.
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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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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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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