...at least as far as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau. 'To be nobodybut-yourself,' as he once put it, 'in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...hardest battle which any human being can fight.' And to win that fight, Cummings believed, is to discover a world transformed, in which love transcends...

...itself, regardless, and in spite of everything. CTB: EE Cummings wrote that "To be nobody but myself means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight. " Is it this battle for self-identity, self-preservation, that you had in mind in Losing Battles? identity....

...conceptual tension. NORETTA KOERTGE STEREOTYPES, STATISTICS, AND SCHEMATA1 To be nobody-but-myself - in a world which is doing its best night and day,...any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ee cummings 1. INTRODUCTION Historians of ideas and students of comparative cultures debate the extent...

...School. If we believe we can make a difference ... we will! 44 CHAPTER 4 To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. Reprinted with permission from "A Poet's Advice to Students" from £ £ Cummings: A Miscellany Revised,...

...describing me My Name • Print quote by ee cummings on a sheet of newsprint: "To be nobodybut myself— in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting." • Mail copies of the sample parents' letter below...

...defined what sort of autonomy he could claim and exercise. In a world which, as EE Cummings wrote, "is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else," the job of establishing a self to be, and being yourself, meant "to fight the hardest battle which...

...Lincoln mused, "Whatever you are, be a good one." EE Cummings advised, "To be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."The bottom line is — be yourself! DON'T JUMP INTO TROUBLE MOUTH FIRST. T^ ecently I saw...

...of a plate glass window of an empty store by a busy street on a summer day. RAISED BY HETEROSEXUALS "To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is...any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." — EE Cummings, from "A Poet's Advice to Students" I don't know where I read it — the headline,...

...forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen. — ST. FRANCIS To be nobody but myself— in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...to fight the hardest battle which any human being canfyht, and never stop fyhting. — EE CUMMINGS The real measure of success is to sit on the edge...

...may help your students enjoy and appreciate the "comfort of thought." "To be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day,...everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." — ee cummings (American poet and playwright)...