To Be Nobody-But-Yourself
Almost anybody
can learn to think or believe or know,
but not a single human being
can be taught to feel
Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know,
you are a lot of other people:
but the moment you feel
you are
nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself
in a world which s 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
October 26, 1955
Almost anybody
can learn to think or believe or know,
but not a single human being
can be taught to feel
Why?
Because whenever you think or you believe or you know,
you are a lot of other people:
but the moment you feel
you are
nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself
in a world which s 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
October 26, 1955