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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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...

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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...

Nothing recedes like progress.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the...

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the...

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

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

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

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.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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 imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits...

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...

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...

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

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...