An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction, superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world, nor does he live in some so-called universe, nor does he live in any number of "worlds" or in any...
Edward Estlin (E. E.) Cummings
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by Edward Estlin (E. E.) CummingsI'd rather learn from one bird how to sing, than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Love is the every only God.
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world, unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die. Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.
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When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you (or less than nothing)I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words, "freedom". You confuse freedom, the only freedom, with absolute tyranny.
All over this socalled world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent...