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1 × 1

E.E. Cummings

1 × 1 is a 1944 book of poetry by American poet E. E. Cummings. Cummings' biographer Richard S. Kennedy described the theme of the book, Cummings' ninth, as "oneness and the means whereby that oneness is achieved—love". The book contains 54 poems, including portraits of people important to Cummings, and antiwar poems. It received the Shelley Memorial Award in 1945, and was reissued by publisher Harcourt Brace in 1954.

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

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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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“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), X

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“plato told
him:he couldn't
believe it(jesus told him; he
wouldn't believe
itlao tsze
certainly told
him, and general
(yes mam)
sherman;
and even
(believe it
or not)you
told him:i told
him; we told him”

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he didn't believe it,no <p> sir
XIII : plato told
1 x 1 (1944)

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“and liars kill their kind
but' her, my 'love creates love only' our”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXII

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“true lovers in each happening of their hearts
live longer than all which and every who;”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXVI

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“pity this busy monster, manunkind, not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond) plays with the bigness of his littleness”

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XIV : pity this busy monster, manunkind
1 x 1 (1944)

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“nothing false and possible is love
(who's imagined, therefore limitless)
love's to giving as to keeping's give; as yes is to if, love is to yes”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXXIV

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“nothing except the impossible shall occur”

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XLII
1 x 1 (1944)

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“true wars are never won”

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Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXX

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“no sunbeam ever lies”

E.E. Cummings book 1 × 1

Source: 1 x 1 (1944), XXX

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