E.E. Cummings

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 can fight and never stop fighting.

Cummings (1894-1962) was an American poet, essayist, author, and playwright. His body of work encompasses more than 900 poems, plays, essays, drawings, and two novels. He is best remembered as a preeminent voice of 20th century poetry, as well as one of the most popular.