At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Quote by E E Cummings

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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...

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

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

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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...

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody...

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody...

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

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...

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...

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

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

The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying...

The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying...

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars...

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars...

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...

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...

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and...

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and...

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...