E. E. Cummings - Truth Quotes

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And nothing quite so least as truth
—i say though hate were why men breathe—
because my father lived his soul
love is the whole and more than all

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The whole truth…
sings only —and all lovers are the song

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It's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until:
…love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)

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Seeker of truth
follow no path
all paths lead where
truth is here

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What if a much of which of a wind
gives the truth to summer's lie;
bloodies with dizzying leaves the sun
and yanks immortal stars awry.

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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

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A great
man
is
gone. Tall as the truth was who; and
wore his
… life
like a …
sky.

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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?

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