I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
— E. E. Cummings
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• Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
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The typography of some of these quotes may seem incorrect: it probably isn't. Outside of some bolding for emphasis of well noted or notable statements, and a few marks of ellipsis "…" for gaps, Cumming's often-odd original typography has been retained, so much as possible, in many of the quotes, including where punctuation marks between words are often used without any spaces.)
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