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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Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

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.

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 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.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

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...

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

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...

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 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...

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;...

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

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...

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...

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.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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...

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...

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

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