EEK, E.E. Cummings is Coming at You

  
     It currently graces the splashy TV tube in our living room, not only in word, but in voice, of inimitable poet E. E. Cummings.  Yes, it's on a car commercial, but if the recorded voice weren't recognizable, (as it is to me), the words in their form, in their manner, would be.  Not to mention their dignity, their intensity, their "hold off the world" insistence, their truthfulness:

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.

         I found the source of the Cummings quote at a wonderful website called "Brain Pickings"; you can find it too at brainpickings.org, "The Courage to Be Yourself."