mister--wizard on Nostr: if not a misattribution, sounds suspiciously similar to this line by e.e. cummings: ...
if not a misattribution, sounds suspiciously similar to this line by e.e. cummings:
To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting
(and unless my memory is playing tricks on me, it appears that the goodreads site from which i copied the above presumes to know better than mr cummings and has replaced the word "man" with --human being--)
To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting
(and unless my memory is playing tricks on me, it appears that the goodreads site from which i copied the above presumes to know better than mr cummings and has replaced the word "man" with --human being--)