Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

08 August 2011

Favorite Quote, II

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1855)

Favorite Quote, I

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 being can fight; and never stop fighting.

— e. e. cummings, "A Poet's Advice to Students" (1958)