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What does it mean?
Love is the supreme value.
In plain terms
Love is the only thing that matters.
What can you take from it?
Prioritize love above all.

Where it applies

  • relationships
  • religious study

Putting it to work

  • focus on love

Questions to consider

  • Is love your only god?

Another view

It excludes other values like justice.

More from E. E. Cummings

  1. and nothing quite so least as truth -i say though hate were why men breathe- because my father lived his soul love is the whole and more than all

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  2. love is more thicker than forget :it is more sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky

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  3. my father moved through dooms of love through sames of am through haves of give singing each morning out of each night my father moved through depths of height

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