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E. E. Cummings quotes: A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat A man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
E. E. Cummings quotes: All in green went my love riding All in green went my love riding
E. E. Cummings quotes: A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues
E. E. Cummings quotes: It's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful It's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful
E. E. Cummings quotes: The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds. The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. Cummings quotes: A noone who,till their and your returning,spends the forever of his lonelinessdreaming their eyes have opened to your morning A noone who,till their and your returning,
spends the forever of his loneliness
dreaming their eyes have opened to your morning
E. E. Cummings quotes: Since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid Since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid
E. E. Cummings quotes: Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine. Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.
E. E. Cummings quotes: ...and down they forgot as up they grew. ...and down they forgot as up they grew.
E. E. Cummings quotes: I think you will be tired of tellingme & my dreams to go to hell I think you will be tired of telling
me & my dreams to go to hell
E. E. Cummings quotes: On forever's very now we stand. On forever's very now we stand.
E. E. Cummings quotes: -tomorrow is our permanent addressand there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,we'll move away still further:into now -tomorrow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now
E. E. Cummings quotes: Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds Yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds
E. E. Cummings quotes: She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still
E. E. Cummings quotes: (a moon swims out of a clouda clock strikes midnighta finger pulls a triggera bird flies into a mirror) (a moon swims out of a cloud
a clock strikes midnight
a finger pulls a trigger
a bird flies into a mirror)
E. E. Cummings quotes: I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. 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 quotes: Time is a tree (this life one leaf)but love is the sky and i am for youjust so long and long enough 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 quotes: If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you If you like my poems let them
walk in the evening, a little behind you
E. E. Cummings quotes: The moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy The moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy
E. E. Cummings quotes: All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn.
E. E. Cummings quotes: I will not kiss your fucking flag I will not kiss your fucking flag
E. E. Cummings quotes: -Before leaving my roomi turn, and (stoopingthrough the morning) kissthis pillow, dearwhere our heads lived and were. -Before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.
E. E. Cummings quotes: For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea. For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Hopes dance best on bald men's hair Hopes dance best on bald men's hair
E. E. Cummings quotes: Your head is a living forest full of songbirds. Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Worms are the words but joy's the voice Worms are the words but joy's the voice
E. E. Cummings quotes: The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead. The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. Cummings quotes: What's beyond logic happens beneath will;nor can these moments be translated: i saythat even after Aprilby God there is no excuse for May What's beyond logic happens beneath will;
nor can these moments be translated: i say
that even after April
by God there is no excuse for May
E. E. Cummings quotes: The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky) Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)
E. E. Cummings quotes: Sunlight is(life and day are)only loaned:whereasnight is given(night and death and the rainare given;and given is how beautifully snow) Sunlight is
(life and day are)only loaned:whereas
night is given(night and death and the rain
are given;and given is how beautifully snow)
E. E. Cummings quotes: The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being. The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers. Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.
E. E. Cummings quotes: love is the every only god love is the every only god
E. E. Cummings quotes: And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms
E. E. Cummings quotes: Along the brittle treacherous bright streetsof memory comes my heart,singing likean idiot,whispering like a drunken man Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
E. E. Cummings quotes: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.
E. E. Cummings quotes: The eyes of my eyes are opened. The eyes of my eyes are opened.
E. E. Cummings quotes: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
E. E. Cummings quotes: So truly perfectly the skiesby merciful love whispered were,completes its brightness with your eyesany illimitable star. So truly perfectly the skies
by merciful love whispered were,
completes its brightness with your eyes
any illimitable star.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Be of love(a little)More carefulThan everything Be of love(a little)
More careful
Than everything
E. E. Cummings quotes: The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. Cummings quotes: But I come with a dream in my eyes tonightAnd knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart. But I come with a dream in my eyes tonight
And knock with a rose at the hopeless gate of your heart.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Progress is a comfortable disease. Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. Cummings quotes: What if a much of a which of a windgives the truth to summer's lie;bloodies with dizzying leaves the sunand yanks immortal stars awry? 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?
E. E. Cummings quotes: Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all
E. E. Cummings quotes: A world of made is not a world of born A world of made is not a world of born
E. E. Cummings quotes: (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift) (existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)
E. E. Cummings quotes: The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility. The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
E. E. Cummings quotes: All by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes All by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes
E. E. Cummings quotes: That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies. That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Your homecoming will be my homecoming Your homecoming will be my homecoming
E. E. Cummings quotes: Lovers alone wear sunlight. Lovers alone wear sunlight.
E. E. Cummings quotes: what if a much of a which of a wind what if a much of a which of a wind
E. E. Cummings quotes: Things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision Things which in my mind blossom will
stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear
capable of fragility and indecision
E. E. Cummings quotes: You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing. You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Notice the convulsed orange inch of moonperching on this silver minute of evening Notice the convulsed orange inch of moon
perching on this silver minute of evening
E. E. Cummings quotes: May came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel. Down with ought with because with every brain that thinks it thinks nor dares to feel.
E. E. Cummings quotes: To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white. To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Goddamn everything but the circus Goddamn everything but the circus
E. E. Cummings quotes: Must's a schoolroom in the month of may Must's a schoolroom in the month of may
E. E. Cummings quotes: Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. Cummings quotes: So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality. So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
E. E. Cummings quotes: And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
E. E. Cummings quotes: Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
E. E. Cummings quotes: Nothing" the unjust man complained "is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined. Nothing"
the unjust man complained
"is just" ("or un-" the just rejoined.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things? Since feelings come first, who cares about the syntax of things?
E. E. Cummings quotes: What time is it?its is by every stara different time,and each most falsely true ... What time is it?its is by every star
a different time,and each most falsely true ...
E. E. Cummings quotes: It takes two to be serious It takes two to be serious
E. E. Cummings quotes: Children are apt to forget to remember. Children are apt to forget to remember.
E. E. Cummings quotes: and on forever's very now we stand and on forever's very now we stand
E. E. Cummings quotes: feeling is first, feeling is first,
E. E. Cummings quotes: Nobody loses all the time. Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Accept all happiness from me.Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird sing terribly afar in the lost lands.in the lost lands Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands
E. E. Cummings quotes: Awake,chaos:we have napped. Awake,chaos:we have napped.
E. E. Cummings quotes: 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. 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.
E. E. Cummings quotes: There is some shit I shall not eat,and I will not kiss your fucking flag! There is some shit I shall not eat,
and I will not kiss your fucking flag!
E. E. Cummings quotes: The blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe; The blond absence of any program except last and always and first to live makes unimportant what i and you believe;
E. E. Cummings quotes: My blood approves,and kisses are a far better fatethan wisdom My blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
E. E. Cummings quotes: By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison. By the way, a gendarme assured me this is not a prison.
E. E. Cummings quotes: The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
E. E. Cummings quotes: When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because. When man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.
E. E. Cummings quotes: It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anyone else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anyone else. Toms can be Dicks and Dicks can be Harrys, but none of them can ever be you.
E. E. Cummings quotes: i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air
E. E. Cummings quotes: When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
E. E. Cummings quotes: The hillslike poets put onpurple thought againstthemagnificent clamor ofdaytorturedin gold The hills
like poets put on
purple thought against
the
magnificent clamor of
day
tortured
in gold
E. E. Cummings quotes: Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. Cummings quotes: Noone beautiful ever hurries. Noone beautiful ever hurries.
E. E. Cummings quotes: His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine His lips drink water
but his heart drinks wine
E. E. Cummings quotes: Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. Cummings quotes: deeds cannot dream what dreams can do deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
E. E. Cummings quotes: You and I are more than you and I because it's we. You and I are more than you and I because it's we.
E. E. Cummings quotes: That strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god. That strictly(and how)scienti fic land of supernod where freedom is compulsory and only man is god.
E. E. Cummings quotes: The courage to receive time 's mightiest dream The courage to receive time 's mightiest dream

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