from A Poet's Advice is the source. It was written in 1955
Pat K
to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night
and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest
battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
e.e. cummings
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Pat, I think you are the one who posted the cummings
quote. Can you tell us the source? It sums up for me
the struggle I feel in teaching. Thanks, Freida
Hammett
to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is
doing its best,
night
and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to
