Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. Cummings Quotes
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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| Birth: | 14th October, 1894 |
| Death: | 3rd September, 1962 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
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Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses approximately 2,900 poems, two autobiographical novels, four plays and several essays, as well as numerous drawings and paintings. He is remembered as an eminent voice of 20th century poetry.
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