An intelligent person fights for lost causes, realizing that others are merely effects.
E. E. CUMMINGSTake the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?
More E. E. Cummings Quotes
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A pretty girl who is naked is worth a million statues.
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Existing’s tricky:but to live’s a gift.
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I’d rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
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Somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be–
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Most people are perfectly afraid of silence.
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Love is the whole and more than all.
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It is with roses and locomotives that my poems are competing.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
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Remember one thing only: that it’s you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.
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The eyes of my eyes are opened.
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