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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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• 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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• 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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  Heart, Player, Men

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• You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

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  Tired, Thinking, Littles

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

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

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  Life, Sweet, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

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  Wise, Liars, Broken

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one

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  Sweet, Love Is, Reason

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

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• somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

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  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth will emerge from free discussion

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  Truth, Theory, Discussion

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• in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems

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  Night, Sky, Walks

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.127, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Beautiful

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

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• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

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  Wisdom, Art, Responsibility

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• Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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  Love, Humanity, Pawns

  XLI Poems (1925) "La Guerre," no. 2

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• A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues

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  Beauty, Girl, Naked

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.2, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.

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  Hands, Mountain, Despair

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

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  Inspirational, Thinking, Life And Death

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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

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  Men, Political, Politics

  1 ? 1 no. 10, l. 1 (1944)

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• Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

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  Laughing, Opening

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• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

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  Love, Relationship, Valentines Day

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

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• i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any--lifted from the no of all nothing--human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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  Dream, Eye, Gay

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

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  Breathing, World, Unreal

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• I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

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  Witty, Art, Money

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• And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love

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  Love, Laughing, Breathe

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.82, W. W. Norton & Company

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• it's spring when the world is puddle-wonderful

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  Spring, Puddles, World

  "Chansons Innocentes: I" l. 9 (1923)

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