e.e. cummiings

“A lot of people think or believe or know they feel, but that’s thinking or believing or knowing: not feeling.  Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel.  Why?  Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel you’re nobody but yourself.  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.