E. E. Cummings - People Quotes

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

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Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people (who, incidentally, run this so-called world) know this (they know everything) whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very, very ignorant and really don't know anything.

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It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

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Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?

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Blossoming are people…
all the earth has turned to sky
…and i am you are i am we

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Without any doubt he was
whatever (first and last) most people fear most:
a mystery for which iv'e
no word except alive

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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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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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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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