E E Cummings Quotes

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• I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
• Progress is a comfortable disease.
• Who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?
• ...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which…
• When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
• The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
• And the reason that i laugh and breathe is oh love
• The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.
• O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy…
• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things…
• There are certain things in which one is unable to believe for the simple reason that he never ceases to feel them. Things of this…
• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
• A pretty girl who is naked / is worth a million statues
• In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee
• May my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if its sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are…
• You shall above all things be glad and young...
• So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
• I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an…

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