E. E. Cummings Quotes on Identity
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Writing...is an art; and artists...are human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is....
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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
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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.
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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.
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a million thousand hundred nothings seem -we are himself's own self;his very him
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it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
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without any doubt he was whatever(first and last) most people fear most: a mystery for which iv'e no word except alive
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.