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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the sea.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You shall above all things be glad and young.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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’.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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