A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man — e e cummings. American poet and author (1894–1962)
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
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.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.