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100 Selected Poems

e.e. cummings

Top 10 Best Quotes

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.”

“when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because”

“Love is the whole and more than all.”

“Always it’s Spring)and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.”

“What if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave, and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?”

“i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any---lifted from the no of all nothing---human merely being doubt unimaginably You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened)”

“Nobody loses all the time.”

“the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.”

“O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee , has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty . how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)”

“my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom”

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Book Keywords:

reasoning, nature, prayer, love, gratitude, hope, water, spring, faith, poetry

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