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• since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid

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  Fear, Flower

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that has not occurred:i am a birdcage without any bird a collar looking for a dog a kisswithout lips;a prayer lacking any kneesbut something beats within my shirt to provehe is undead who living noone is.I have never loved you dear as now i love.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Dog, Prayer

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “ViVa”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

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• one day anyone died i guess
  (and noone stooped to kiss his face)
  busy folk buried them side by side
  little by little and was by was

  e. e. cummings

  Death, Kissing, One Day

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.73, Grove Press

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• And the coolness of your smile is stirringofbirds between my arms

  e. e. cummings

  Bird, Your Smile, Arms

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• mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

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  Girl, Party, Men

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone.

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  Travel, Home, World

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

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  Mind, Fragility, Indecision

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.155, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Women and men(both little and small)
  cared for anyone not at all
  they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
  sun moon stars rain

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Rain, Moon

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Next to of course god America i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh

  e. e. cummings

  Love You, Land, America

  "next to of course god america i" l. 1 (1926)

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• What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?

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  Dream, Two, Forever

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

  e. e. cummings

  Remembrance, Miracle, Reborn

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• who knows if the moon's a balloon,coming out of a keen city in the sky--filled with pretty people? ( and if you and I should get into it,if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty people than houses and steeples and clouds: go sailing away and away sailing into a keen city which nobody's ever visited,where always it's Spring)and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves

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  Spring, Flower, Moon

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Tulips and Chimneys”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began

  e. e. cummings

  Evolution, Bigger, Decided

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• Unlove's the heavenless hell and the homeless home.

  e. e. cummings

  Home, Hell, Homeless

  "95 poems (91)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• someones married their everyones
  laughed their cryings and did their dance
  (sleep wake hope and then) they
  said their nevers they slept their dream

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  Marriage, Dream, Sleep

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• my
  mother hoped that
  
  i would die etcetera
  bravely of course my father used
  to become hoarse talking about how it was
  a privilege and if only he
  could

  e. e. cummings

  Mother, Father, Talking

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

  e. e. cummings

  Uncles, Buttons, Coffins

  E. E. Cummings (1996). “Is 5”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All in green went my love riding

  e. e. cummings

  Riding, Green

  "All in green went my love riding" l. 1 (1923)

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• The whole truth... sings only - and all lovers are the song.

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  Life, Song, Lovers

  "95 poems (91)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1958.

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• because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

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  Spring, People, Way

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• What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

  e. e. cummings

  Way, Born, Adages

  E. E. Cummings' foreword to a collection of "Krazy Kat" comic strips (1946); later published in E. E. Cummings "A Miscellany Revised", 1965.

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• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

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  Snob, Humans, Human Beings

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• a salesman is an it that stinks to please but whether to please itself or someone else makes no more difference than if it sells hate condoms education snakeoil vac uumcleaners terror strawberries democ ra(caveat emptor)cy superfluous hair

  e. e. cummings

  Hate, Hair, Differences

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.86, Grove Press

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• love being such, or such, the normal corners of your heart will never guess how much my wonderful jealousy is dark

  e. e. cummings

  Heart, Dark, Normal

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• Buffalo Bill's
  defunct

  e. e. cummings

  Death, Bills, Buffalo

  'Portraits' no. 8 (1923)

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