e. e. cummings
so
many selves(so many fiends and gods
each
greedier than every)is a man
(so
easily one in another hides;
yet
man can,being all,escape from none)
so
huge a tumult is the simplest wish:
so
pitiless a massacre the hope
most
innocent(so deep's the mind of flesh
and
so awake what waking calls asleep)
so
never is most lonely man alone
(his
briefest breathing lives some planet's year,
his
longest life's a heartbeat of some sun;
his
least unmotion roams the youngest star)
—how
should a fool that calls him 'I' presume
to
comprehend not numerable whom?