Why should I be able to be a capital “I”? I’m just a cynical old poet, no one cares for what I have to say in society, they just enjoy my work. It isn’t important to me to differentiate us from lower case “I” to capital “I”, I don’t think that our humanity deserves the capital “I” yet.”
E.E. Cummings interviewed by Peter Carlton when asked why he uses “I” in lower case