More from E. E. Cummings
Time’s a strange fellow;
more he gives than takes
(and he takes all)95 poems (1958), 78I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to danceCollected Poems (1938), “New Poems: 22”
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Every artist’s strictly illimitable country is himself.
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)
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance