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He's my favourite poet, and of all the poems he's written this is the one that sticks with me the most, so I had to put it here....

since feeling is first
who pay any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
--the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids flutter which says

we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis.

e.e.cummings, 1926

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