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E. E. Cummings Quotes

«We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.»
«If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obsessed by Making.»
«who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty people?»
«Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.»
«The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.»
«Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people?»
Author: E. E. Cummings | Keywords: the matter
«A draftsman of words.»
Author: E. E. Cummings | Keywords: draftsman
«At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.»
«next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh»
Author: E. E. Cummings | Keywords: and so forth, pilgrims
«It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my ''poems'' are competing.»

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