“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, “A Poet’s Advice to Students” in E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany (1958), edited by George James Firmage, p. 13 (Source).
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The pressure of conformity is relentless. The authentic self is constantly being coated in layers of distortion that must be sponged away to expose the raw reality underneath. Constantly sponging….
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DANG, lady. That’s beautiful.
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Love that quote. I think it’s safe to say that he will never win the Terrible Poetry Contest.
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I would hope not!!
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