E. E. Cummings Short Quotes

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Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home

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Ye! the godless are the dull and the dull are the damned

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Each ignorant gladness —unteaches what despair preaches

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It may take two people to make a really beautiful mistake

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Out of the mountain of his soul
comes a keen pure silence

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Life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis

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Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

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

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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

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Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles.

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And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

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

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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Hugest whole creation may be less
incalculable than a single kiss

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Yes is a pleasant country…
love is a deeper season
than reason

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All ignorance toboggans into know
and trudges up to ignorance again

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That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.

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Unless statistics lie he was
more brave than me: more blond than you.

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Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

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Always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves.

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'and liars kill their kind
but' her, my 'love creates love only' our

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Now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened

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

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

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Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

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All nothing's only our hugest home;
the most who die, the more we live

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Time's a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)

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May my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living

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Who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you

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