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e. e. cummings

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e. e. cummings prefers learning from a single bird rather than teaching thousands of stars. He writes that music exists only when the drum and drummer become one. He also celebrates spring as a puddle‑wonderful world. He also mentions that ignorance cycles back into knowledge, and that life is not a simple paragraph.

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Edward E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright.

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During World War I he worked as an ambulance driver and was later imprisoned in an internment camp, experiences that inspired his 1922 novel The Enormous Room.

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