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E. E. Cummings on Birthday

1894–1962 United States

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Though you are as honest as the day, fear and hate the liar. Fear and hate him when he should be feared and hated:now. Fear and hate him were he should be feared and hated:in yourselves.

an essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945)

—tommorow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now

seeming's enough for slaves of space and time
—ours is the now and here of freedom. Come

dreamtree,truthtree
tree of jubilee:with aeons of (trivial
merely)existence,all
when may not measure
a now of your treasure

the cunning the craven
... they live for until
though the sun in his heaven
says Now

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: E. E. Cummings (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.