E.E. Cummings is one of our favorite poets, not just because he was a rule-breaker, but because of his devotion and conviction to his craft. 

This probably the most stunning and shortest poems you will lay your eyes and then feel. Once you see the beauty and brilliance of it you cannot unsee it.

Watch this insightful analysis by Seth Kacel.

"A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words.

This may sound easy. It isn’t.

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." 
E.E. Cummings