More from E. E. Cummings
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to danceCollected Poems (1938), “New Poems: 22”- i: six nonlectures (1953), “Re Ezra Pound”
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Time’s a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)
95 poems (1958), 78
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance