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Born in October 14, 1894 / Died in September 3, 1962 / United States / English

Poems by Edward Estlin Cummings

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if everything happens that can't be done

... there's somebody calling who's wewe're everything brighter than even the sun ...

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your little voice... (I)

... dizzy With the jostling and shouting of merry flowers ...

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i sing of Olaf glad and big

... "I will not kiss your fucking flag"straightway the silver bird looked grave ...

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nobody loses all the time (X)

... tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything andi remember we all cried like the Missouri ...

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you shall above all things... (22)

... I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing ...

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silence... (40)

... silence.is a lookingbird:theturn ing;edge,of life(inquiry before snow ...

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i go to this window

... and cling to my mind alwaysBut now she sharpens and becomes crisper ...

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my girl's tall with hard long eyes... (XIX)

... as she stands, with her long hard hands keeping ...

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who knows if the moon's... (VII)

... why then we'd go up higher with all the pretty peoplethan houses and steeples and clouds: ...

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why did you go... (IV)

... or maybe did something go away ...

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pity this busy monster,manunkind... (XIV)

... is not a world of born-pity poor fleshand trees,poor stars and stones,but never this ...

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my love is building a building... (XII)

... ower of magic and(as i guess)when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shallcrumble the mouth-flower fleet ...

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nobody loved this... (4)

... nobody ever could everhad love loved whose his ...

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I Am A Beggar Always

... instance a plugged promise-the he will maybe (hearing something ...

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nothing false and possible is love... (XXXIV)

... will ourselves continue to outgrowall whose mosts if you have known and i've ...