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• Buffalo Bill's defunct who used to ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat Jesus he was a handsome man and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

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  Jesus, Boys, Men

  Tulips and Chimneys (1923) "Portraits" no. 8

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

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  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before and shining this our now must come to then

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  Shining, Miracle, Alive

  E. E. Cummings (1997). “XAIPE”, p.69, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

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  Fighting, Blow, People

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Your homecoming will be my homecoming

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  Homecoming

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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• hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young

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  Hate, Blow, Yesterday

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• Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious.

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  Life, Girl, Flower

  "Forward to an Exhibit: II". Poem by E. E. Cummings, 1945.

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• All which isn't singing is mere talking... and all talking's to oneself alone but the very song of (as mountains feel and lovers) singing is silence.

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  Song, Talking, Silence

  "73 poems (32)". Book by E. E. Cummings, 1962.

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• ...sunlight is (life and day are)only loaned:whereas night is given(night and death and the rain are given;and given is how beautifully snow)

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  Rain, Night, Snow

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• for whenever men are right they are not young

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  Men, Young

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

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• The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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  Ignorance, Causes, Chiefs

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• All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

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  Ignorance, Statistics, Knows

  E. E. Cummings (1959). “100 Selected Poems”, p.102, Grove Press

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• The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.

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  Soul, Mind, Cambridge

  "Sonnets - Realities" no. 1, l. 1 (1923)

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• guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

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  Guilt, Causes, Obscene

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• For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-mysteries creates them all: nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined,therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if,love is to yes

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  Love Is, Giving, April

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• a connotation of infinity sharpens the temporal splendor of this night when souls which have forgot frivolity in lowliness,noting the fatal flight of worlds whereto this earth’s a hurled dream down eager avenues of lifelessness consider for how much themselves shall gleam, in the poised radiance of perpetualness. When what’s in velvet beyond doomed thought is like a woman amorous to be known; and man,whose here is alway worse than naught, feels the tremendous yonder for his own— on such a night the sea through her blind miles of crumbling silence seriously smiles

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  Dream, Night, Men

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• one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep.

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  Lying, Sleep, Rose

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• Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.

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  Thinking, Brain, Dare

  "100 Selected Poems".

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• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

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  Simplicity, Failing, Grows

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• maybe god is a child ‘s hand)very carefully bring -ing to you and to me(and quite with out crushing)the papery weightless diminutive world with a hole in it out of which demons with wings would be streaming if something had(maybe they couldn’t agree)not happened(and floating- ly int o

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  Crush, Children, Hands

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• Nothing recedes like progress.

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  Progress

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• worms are the words but joy's the voice

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  Voice, Joy, Feelings

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• O gouvernment francais, I think it was not very clever of You to put this terrible doll in La Ferte; for when Governments are found dead there is always a little doll on top of them, pulling and tweaking with his little hands to get back at the microscopic knife which sticks firmly in the quiet meat of their hearts.

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  Clever, Heart, Thinking

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.102, Xist Publishing

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• 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, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands -excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems

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  Country, Rain, Eye

  E. E. Cummings, “Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond”

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• they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead

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  Education, Believe, Intelligence

  "Sonnets - Realities" no. 1, l. 5 (1923)

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