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

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on America
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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."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on America
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Humankind
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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Income
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"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Knowledge
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Laughter
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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Nature
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"It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Poetry and Poets
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"A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Politicians and Politics
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"Nothing recedes like progress."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Progress
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"Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Property
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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Questions
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"It takes three to make a child."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Children
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Courage
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"when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on Creation
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"… and down they forgot as up they grew "

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"Lovers alone wear sunlight"

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