E. E. Cummings Quote

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel …
the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.
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.


A Poet's Advice (1958)


Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel … the moment you feel, you're...

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel … the moment you feel, you're...

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel … the moment you feel, you're...

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel … the moment you feel, you're...