“To be nobody but myself — 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, poet (1894-1962)

A brief bio and a sampler of his poetry may be found here:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/e-e-cummings