A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Quote by E E Cummings

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To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you...

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you...

It takes three to make a child.

It takes three to make a child.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America...

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and...

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and...

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart).

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be...

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be...

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and...

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and...

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear;...

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear;...

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him...

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him...

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new...

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new...

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in...

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in...

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars...

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy...

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning...

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when...

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when...