18-10-2011, 02:23 AM
I am reminded of an old favorite poem of mine I found in a volume of poetry I received in the 8th grade for winning the summer reading contest. I used to keep it written down and folded up in my wallet for a very long time until it finally entered into me via osmosis. My middle name begins with the letter E, so it was particularly special to me.
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
US poet (1894 - 1962)
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
US poet (1894 - 1962)
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"