I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.

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Sun Mouth Leap Darkness

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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Days Laughter Most Wasted

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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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Become Courage Grow Grow Up

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

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Any Believe Curiosity Delight

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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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Imagine Living Living Thing Only

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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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Wonderful World Is Mud

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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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Anything Careful Little Love

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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

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Began Had His Instant

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It takes three to make a child.

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Child Make Takes Three

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At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

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Children Clocks Fathers Indians

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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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Because Buy Drink Hard

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge

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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

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Autumn Away Blown I Think

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I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

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Better Body Like More

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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

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Any Battle Being Best

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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Alive Being Dead Isn't

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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.

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Amazing Blue Day Dream

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

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Bird Dance How Learn

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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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Always Any Creation Destroy

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Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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Better Fate Kisses Than

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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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Any Else Love Makes

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Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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Door Go Good Hell

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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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Always Answer Ask Beautiful

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A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

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Arse Everyone Except Man

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

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Because Black Dislike He

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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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Anybody He Little Made

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Nothing recedes like progress.

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Like Nothing Progress Recedes

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"27 E. E. Cummings Quotes & Sayings

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E. E. Cummings

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

E. E. Cummings

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

E. E. Cummings

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

E. E. Cummings

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

E. E. Cummings

It takes three to make a child.

E. E. Cummings

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

E. E. Cummings

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

E. E. Cummings

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

E. E. Cummings

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

E. E. Cummings

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

E. 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. Cummings

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

E. E. Cummings

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

E. E. Cummings

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

E. E. Cummings

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

E. E. Cummings

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

E. E. Cummings

Nothing recedes like progress.

E. E. Cummings

E. E. Cummings Quotes & Sayings

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