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• In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

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  Spring, Lame, World

  "Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 1 (1923)

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• Buffalo Bill's
  defunct

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  Death, Bills, Buffalo

  'Portraits' no. 8 (1923)

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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.

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  Fighting, Blow, People

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes

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  Dream, Sleep, Wish

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.74, Grove Press

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• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

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  Way, Born, Adages

  E. E. Cummings' foreword to a collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips (1946); later published in E. E. Cummings "A Miscellany Revised", 1965.

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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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  Spring, People, Way

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• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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  Snob, Humans, Human Beings

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• O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

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  Russia, Finland

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.43, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All in green went my love riding

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  Riding, Green

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

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  Hate, Love You, Forever

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.18, Grove Press

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• more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then

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  Shining, Miracle, Alive

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• my
  mother hoped that
  
  i would die etcetera
  bravely of course my father used
  to become hoarse talking about how it was
  a privilege and if only he
  could

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  Mother, Father, Talking

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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  Summer, Stars, Lying

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• anyone lived in a pretty how town
  (with up so floating many bells down)
  spring summer autumn winter
  he sang his didn't he danced his did.

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  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  '50 Poems' (1949) no. 29

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• a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

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  Men, Ideas, Thieves

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove Press

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

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  Home, Emptiness, Dies

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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