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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: World

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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Bird Dance How Learn Rather Sing Stars Teach Ten Than Thousand

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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Always America Cannot Colossal Course Denied Faults Going Hell Least Makes May Mistakes Move One Thing She Standing Still Thing

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

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Buried Dead Imagination Knowledge Polite Word

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Nothing recedes like progress.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Like Nothing Progress

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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Alive Being Dead

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

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Anybody He Little Made Making Matter Obsessed Poet Somebody Things Very Who Whom

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It takes three to make a child.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Child Make Takes Three

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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

~E. E. Cummings

Topics: Because Black Dislike He Him Individual Insulting Just Like White

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 14th, 1894

Died: September 3rd, 1962

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