ee cummings

[David Morris]

https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/09/25/e-e-cummings-advice/

"A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.

This may sound easy. It isn’t.

A lot of people think or believe or know they feel — but that’s thinking or
believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling — not knowing or
believing or thinking.

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’re a lot of other people: but 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."

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