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open your thighs to fate and(if you can
withholding nothing)World, conceive a man

— E. E. Cummings no thanks (1935)

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The sensical law of this world is might makes right; the nonsensical law of our heroine is love conquers all.

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)

What concerns me fundamentaly is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.

A Foreword to Krazy (1946)

Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself.

i: six nonlectures (1953)

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Collected Poems (1938)

Very luckily for you and me,the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.

Foreword to an Exhibit: I (1944)

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