Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
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e. e. cummings
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About e. e. cummings
Edward Estlin Cummings, commonly known as e e cummings or E. E. Cummings, was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. During World War I, he worked as an ambulance driver and was imprisoned in an internment camp, which provided the basis for his novel The Enormous Room (1922). The following year he published his first collection of poetry, Tulips and Chimneys, which showed his early experiments with grammar and typography. He wrote four plays, the most successful of which w…
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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.