E.E. Cummings, American poet

“The moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself. 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.” (From “A Poet’s Advice,” 1958)

Oct. 14, 1894-Sept. 3, 1962