To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
–e.e.cummings, from “A Poet’s Advice,” first published as a letter to high school students at Ottawa Hills High School

This entry was posted on March 30, 2007 and is filed under quotations.