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E. E. Cummings

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e. e. cummings (in the style of his poems), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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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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The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

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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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for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

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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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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

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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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Every answer asks a more beautiful question

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

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A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

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and the reason that I laugh and breathe is oh love

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

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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

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