If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Quote by E E Cummings

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

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

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

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

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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...

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

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

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

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...

The earth laughs in flowers.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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;...

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'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...

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...

It takes three to make a child.

It takes three to make a child.

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.