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.
More Quotes from e. e. cummings:
Why do you paint; For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There isnt any answer. How long hasnt there been any answer; As long as I can remember. And how long have you written; As long as I can remember. I mean poetry. So do I.E. E. Cummings
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
e. e. cummings
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
e. e. cummings
Who knows if the moon's a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky filled with pretty people
E. E. Cummings
Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive nothing which is not alive can be art nothing which cannot be art is true and everything untrue doesnt matter a very good God damn...
E. E. Cummings
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Night Quotes, World QuotesThe debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.
Jeffrey Sachs
We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
Bob Weir
If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist.
Amiri Baraka