8 E. E. Cummings Quotes on Identity

E. E. Cummings quotes on identity

1. Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....

12. a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

54. An artist doesn't live in some geographical abstraction,superimposed on a part of this beautiful earth by the nonimagination of unanimals and dedicated to the proposition that massacre is a social virtue because murder is an individual vice. Nor does an artist live in some soi-disant world,nor does he live in some so-called universe,nor does he live in any number of 'worlds' or in any number of 'universes.' As for a few trifling delusions like the 'past' and 'present' and 'future' of quote mankind unquote,they may be big enough for a couple of billion supermechanized submorons but they're much too small for one human being.

55. Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide;and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal;and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.

61. a million thousand hundred nothings seem -we are himself's own self;his very him

68. it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

77. without any doubt he was whatever(first and last) most people fear most: a mystery for which iv'e no word except alive

98. It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.