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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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3.213 e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) 1894-1962<br />

anyone lived in a pretty how town<br />

(with up so floating many bells down)<br />

spring summer autumn winter<br />

he sang his didn’t he danced his did.<br />

‘50 Poems’ (1949) no. 29<br />

‘next to <strong>of</strong> course god america i<br />

love you land <strong>of</strong> the pilgrims’ and so forth oh<br />

say can you see by the dawn’s early my<br />

country ’tis <strong>of</strong> centuries come and go<br />

and are no more what <strong>of</strong> it we should worry<br />

in every language even deafanddumb<br />

thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry<br />

by jingo by gee by gosh by gum<br />

why talk <strong>of</strong> beauty what could be more beaut—<br />

iful than these heroic happy dead<br />

who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter<br />

they did not stop to think they died instead<br />

then shall the voices <strong>of</strong> liberty be mute?<br />

He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass <strong>of</strong> water.<br />

‘is 5’ (1926) p. 62<br />

Humanity i love you because<br />

when you’re hard up you pawn your<br />

intelligence to buy a drink.<br />

‘La Guerre’ no. 2 (1925)<br />

a politician is an arse upon<br />

which everyone has sat except a man.<br />

‘1 x 1’ (1944) no. 10<br />

plato told<br />

him: he couldn’t<br />

believe it (jesus<br />

told him; he<br />

wouldn’t believe<br />

it) lao<br />

tsze<br />

certainly told<br />

him, and general<br />

(yes

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