E. E. Cummings on Love
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“lovers alone wear sunlight”
“The whole truth… sings only —and all lovers are the song”
“yes is a pleasant country… love is a deeper season than reason”
“'and liars kill their kind but' her,my 'love creates love only' our”
“measureless our pure living complete love whose doom is beauty and its fate to grow”
“true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who;”
“i feel that(false and true are merely to know) Love only has ever been,is,and will ever be,So”
“no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love —human one mortally immortal i can turn immense all time's because to why”
“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”
“nothing false and possible is love (who's imagined, therefore limitless) love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes”
“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”
“it's love by whom (my beautiful friend) the gift to live is without until: …love was and shall be this only truth (a dream of a deed, born not to die)”
“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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