Cummings: ready or not

I came across this quote from e. e. cummings
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everyone else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

And so I rediscovered some of his poems. Here's: Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, Gladly Beyond.
somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their
silence
in your most frail gesture are things
which enclose me
or which I cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
through I have closed myself as fingers
you open always petal by petal myself
as Spring opens
(touching skillfully, mysteriously) her first
rose

or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life will shut very
beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower
imagines
the snow carefully everywhere
descending

nothing which we are to perceive in this
world equals
the power of your intense
fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its
countries
rendering death and forever with each
breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that
closes
and opens: only something in me
understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all
roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small
hands