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no evil is
so worse than worst you fall in hate with love
—human one mortally immortal i
can turn immense all time's because to why

— E. E. Cummings

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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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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