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One day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing.
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The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.
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God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.
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All nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live
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Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset
(and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).
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Because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)
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Ye! the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned
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A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
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—the great my darling happens to be
that love are in we, that love are in we
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Maybe god is a child 's hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn't agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o
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Seeming's enough for slaves of space and time
—ours is the now and here of freedom. Come
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That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.
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My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.
Does this sound dismal? It isn't.
It's the most wonderful life on earth.
Or so I feel.
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On the grammar skills of US President Warren G. Harding following his death:
The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
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If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.
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For he has the territory of harmonicas, the acres of flutes, the meadows of clarinets, the domain of violins. And God says: Why did they put you in prison? What did you do to the people? "I made them dance and they put me in prison."
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Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.
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A distinct throat. Which breathes. A head: small, smaller than a flower. With eyes and with lips. Lips more slender than light; a smile how carefully and slowly made, a smile made entirely of dream. Eyes deeper than Spring. Eyes darker than Spring, more new... These, these are the further miracles... the breasts. Thighs. The All which is beyond comprehension — the All which is perpetually discovered, yet undiscovered: sexual, sweet, Alive!
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It's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)
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Time cannot children, poets, lovers tell- measure imagine, mystery, a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
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Measureless our pure living complete love
whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow
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Certainly the most obvious... example of the strictly infantile essence of America's all-conquering mentality greets our eyes daily, anywhere and everywhere, in the guise of the tabloid newspaper.
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Pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
October 14, 1894
Died:
September 3, 1962
(aged 67)
Bio:
Edward Estlin Cummings, known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e e cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.
Known for:
The Enormous Room (1922)
100 Selected Poems (1926)
Tulips and Chimneys (1923)
Erotic Poems
95 Poems
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