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__but if a living dance upon dead minds__
The first line of the poem, "but if a living dance upon dead minds why, it is love".

Cummings was credited as being very romantic. This begins the poem by saying if there is something, anything alive within us, than that something is love.

Cummings was is known for his various explanations of love. Below are just a few of the quotes of cummings on love:

"Unless you love someone nothing else makes sense"

"Love alone wears sunlight"

"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is beebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star..."

"One's not half of two; two are halves of one."