E. E. Cummings quotes - page 8

The one...thing which mattered about any poem (so ran my second poetic period's credo) was what the poem said; it's socalled meaning ... Thus it will be seen that, by the year 1900, one growing American boy had reached exactly that stage of "intellectual development" beyond which every ungrowing Marxist adult of today is strictly forbidden ... ever to pass. (E. E. Cummings)
we sans love equals mob. View quote
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no sunbeam ever lies. View quote
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Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist. View quote
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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. View quote
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'and liars kill their kind but' her,my 'love creates love only' our. View quote
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a million thousand hundred nothings seem -we are himself's own self;his very him. View quote
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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) View quote
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because it's Spring thingS dare to do people. View quote
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a great man is gone.Tall as the truth was who; and wore his ... life like a ... sky. View quote
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they flock and they flee through the thunder of seem though the stars in their silence say Be. (E. E. Cummings)
It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel. View quote
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Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things. View quote
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. View quote
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we are for each other: then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph and death i think is no parenthesis. View quote
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Damn everything but the circus!... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions. View quote
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If you're a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society's socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But if-whisper it-you're a 100% hidebound reactionary, the foot's in the other shoe. Ignatz Mouse then stands forth as a hero, pluckily struggling to keep the flag of free will flying; while Offissa Pupp assumes the monstrous mien of a Goliath, satanically bullying a tiny but indomitable David. Well, let's flip the coin-so: and lo! Offissa Pupp comes up. That makes Ignatz Mouse "tails." View quote
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Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things. "Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." View quote
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The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. View quote
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Progress is a comfortable disease. View quote
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It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my ''poems'' are competing. (E. E. Cummings)
Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love. View quote
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The only man, woman, or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors "is dead." View quote
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when god decided to inventeverything he took onebreath bigger than a circustentand everything began. View quote
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The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds. View quote
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