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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.

— E. E. Cummings an essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945)

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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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