Edward Estlin Cummings

EdwardEstlinCummings better know as e.e. cummings (In days of yore, before wikis, he selected an unlinkable name. Ahead of his time.). 1913-1962. A great American poet, he also invented InnerClasses as in (format changes for Wiki):

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So, no one before e.e. cummings used a parenthetical expression?

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I like the way his poems

 who knows if the moon's        
 a balloon,coming out of a keen city
 in the sky--filled with pretty people?
 (and if you and i should

 get into it,if they
 should take me and take you into their balloon,
 why then           
 we'd go up higher with all the pretty people        

 than houses and steeples and clouds:
 go sailing
 away and away sailing into a keen
 city which nobody's ever visited,where

 always
           it's
                    Spring)and everyone's
 in love and flowers pick themselves

do that.

--DavidPorter

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From the poem you shall above all things be glad and young...

 I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
 than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

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His name is NotWikiCompatible?.

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