{"id":7846,"date":"2021-12-31T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7846"},"modified":"2021-12-31T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T06:00:00","slug":"individuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/individuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Individuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Seattle Star, December 31, 1913<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t be Shelley or Keats or Burns,
    Or Caesar or Edmund Kean;
They had their chance and they did their turns
    And now they are gone, I ween.
And why should you copy each august shade
    Who lies on a graveyard shelf?
HE didn\u2019t copy, his fame was made
    By being his own true self!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t be Kipling or Roosevelt,
\u00a0 \u00a0 Or Wilson or Bryan, too;
But you can be known, and you can be felt
\u00a0 \u00a0 By being Yourself all through;
No man grows great when he imitates,
\u00a0 \u00a0 For that is the way to fail;
The fellow who wins from the frowning fates
\u00a0 \u00a0 Must mark out his own clear trail!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may not reach to the heights of fame,
    For few can climb so high,
But at least you can play in the lively game
    Whenever you want to try;
You may not get to the top at all,
    Nor capture renown or pelf,
But, win or lose, or rise or fall,
    At least you can be yourself!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Seattle Star, December 31, 1913. By Berton Braley. You can\u2019t be Shelley or Keats or Burns,    Or Caesar or Edmund Kean;They had their chance and they did their turns    And now they are gone, I ween.And why should you copy each august shade    Who lies on a graveyard shelf?HE didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}