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From Quotes by E E Cummings
- And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing…
- Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from…
- how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You?
- I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
- in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why,remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking…
- nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,…
- one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.
- it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers…
- i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything…
- The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
- (and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of…
- Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big…
- 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…
- I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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