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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

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The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
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“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.”

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” wrote the thirty-year-old Nietzsche. “The true and durable path into and through experience,” Nobel-winning poet Seamus Heaney counseled the young more than a century later in his magnificent commencement a

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