e. e. cummings Quotes

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e. e. cummings

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 14, 1894

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

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

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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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