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• Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear. . .

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  Love, Opposites, Voice

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.71, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nobody loses all the time.

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  Loses

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.103, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Because you aren't afraid to kiss the dirt (and consequently dare to climb the sky)

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  Kissing, Sky, Dirt

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• twice I have lived forever in a smile

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  Forever

  E. E. Cummings (2001). “Etcetera: The Unpublished Poems of E. E. Cummings”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves... Honor and love him...do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.

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  Hate, Night, Artist

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• You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

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  Stars, Moon, Sun

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

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  Beautiful, I Like You, Love You

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• I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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  Life, Imagination, Imagine

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• there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness

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  Eye, Night, Laughing

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• We can never be born enough.

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  Enough, Born

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.271, W. W. Norton & Company

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• May my heart always be open to little birds, who are the secrets of living. Whatever they sing is better than to know. And if men should not hear them - then men are old.

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  Heart, Men, Bird

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• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Running

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• time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

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  Love Is, Sky, Long

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

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  Travel, Memorable, Three

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• As small as a world as large as alone.

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  World

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

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  Sweet, Feet, Soul

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• great men burn bridges before they come to them

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  Men, Bridges, Burning Bridges

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• One's not half two. It's two are halves of one.

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  Two, Half

  "Selected Poems".

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

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  Alive

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• i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Fate

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck

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• notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening

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  Moon, Orange, Evening

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skilfully curled) all worlds

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  World, This World

  E. E. Cummings (1998). “No Thanks”, p.58, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.

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  Believe, Artist, Animal

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• An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects

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  Fighting, Intelligent, Causes

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.276, W. W. Norton & Company

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• you shall above all things be glad and young For if you're young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever's living will yourself become.

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  Young, Glad, All Things

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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