“We doctors know a hopeless case if — listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go”

—  E.E. Cummings, book 1 × 1

XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)
Variant: listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go

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American poet 1894–1962

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