Life's not a paragraph
And death I think is no parenthesis.
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Aphorisms by Edward Estlin (E. E.) Cummings
A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child's drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with a brick. Dog hates mouse and worships "cat", mouse despises "cat" and hates dog, "cat" hates no one and loves mouse.
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In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn't matter a very good God damn...
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Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...
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What concerns me fundamentally is a meteoric burlesk melodrama, born of the immemorial adage love will find a way.
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Very luckily for you and me, the uncivilized sun mysteriously shines on "good" and "bad" alike. He is an artist.
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So, ungentle reader, (as you and I value what we should ashamed, after witnessing a few minor circus-marvels, to call our "lives," ) let us never be fooled into taking seriously that perfectly superficial distinction which is vulgarly drawn between the circus-show and "art" or "the arts." Let us not forget that every authentic "work of art" is in and of itself alive and that, however "the arts" may differ among themselves, their common function is the expression of that supreme alive-ness which is known as "beauty." This being so, our three ring circus is art, for to contend that the spectacle in question is not an authentic manifestation of "beauty" is as childish, as to dismiss the circus on the ground that it is "childish," is idiotic.
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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel...
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
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Women and men (both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain.
All by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep.
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