I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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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.E. E. Cummings
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy.EasyOf courseyou paint flowers and girls and sunsets things that everybody understands.I never met him.WhoEverybody.Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational paintingI am.Pardon meI am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational.Not all painting.No housepainting is representational.And what does a housepainter representTen dollars an hour.In other words, you dont want to be seriousIt takes two to be serious.
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All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
E. E. Cummings
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.
e. e. cummings
when man determined to destroyhimself he picked the wasof shall and finding only whysmashed it into because.
E. E. Cummings
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