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Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There isn’t any answer.
How long hasn’t there been any answer?
As long as I can remember.
And how long have you written?
As long as I can remember.
I mean poetry.
So do I.

- e. e. cummings

Does anyone know the history of this poem? I’d like to know who the painter is.

noun
the realization of potential.

• the supposed vital principle that guides the development and functioning of an organism.

• the soul.

ORIGIN late Middle English : via late latin from Greek entelekheia, from en- ‘within’ + telos ‘end perfection’ + ekhein ‘be in a certain state.’

The condition of something whose essence is fully realized.