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7 E. E. Cummings Quotes on Death

E. E. Cummings quotes on death

  1. life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

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  2. Here life is, moves; faintly. A wrist. The faint throb of blood, precise, miraculous . . . And they talk of dying! The blood delicately descending and ascending: making an arm. Being an arm. The warm flesh, the dim slender flesh filled with life, slenderer than a miracle, frailer . . . These are the shoulders through which fell the world. The dangerous shoulders of Eve, in god's entire garden newly strolling.

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  3. i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay great happening illimitably earth

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  4. more each particular person is(my love) alive than every world can understand and now you are and i am now and we're a mystery that will never happen again, a miracle which has never happened before- and shining this our now must come to then

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  5. Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all)

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  6. a great man is gone. Tall as the truth was who; and wore his : life like a : sky.

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  7. unbeingdead isn't beingalive

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