Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Nobody but myself

To be nobody-but-myself--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 (1894-1962)
(In a letter to a high school editor, 1955.
Quoted in Charles Norman's _The Magic-Maker_ [1958])