Frontispiece to Notice sur les traductions françaises du Manuel d’Épictète. Published 1826. “A.C.”, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
As bad performers cannot sing alone, but in a chorus, so some persons cannot walk alone. If you are anything, walk alone; talk by yourself; and do not skulk in the chorus. Laugh a little at yourself; look about you; stir yourself, that you may know what you are.
The Discourses of Epictetus, p. 206. Translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1944. Roslyn, New York: Walter J. Black, Inc.
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
