It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.


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It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
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E. E. CUMMINGS
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS
He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS
A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS
Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS
who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS
The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS
"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS
The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS
and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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