Quotes About Individuality

my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us

My face is something between groteque and beautiful, Salai. It is something far less interesting; it is plain.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're 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.

remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li ne ss

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

As small as a world as large as alone.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

I am an i poet.

May picked up a smooth round stone, As small as a world and as large as alone.

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows

There is some shit I shall not eat, and I will not kiss your fucking flag!

As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we're not poets.

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.

the cult of Same is all the chic; by instruments, both span and spic, are justly measured Spic and Span:

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group. (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)