Nobody loses all the time.
E. E. CUMMINGS
E. E. CUMMINGS
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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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings You are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings One’s not half two. It’s two are halves of one.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings We can never be born enough.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Twice I have lived forever in a smile.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings 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.
E. E. CummingsE. E. Cummings
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