Poetic

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music." -- Kierkegaard

The great thing about being poetic is that when you get sad over losing your poetic vein, you have it all over again. Analogously, the closer to suicide you are, the greater a writer you are. Hemingway's greatest creation was the one he was working on -- when he shot himself. The trick of writing is to quarantine negative memories, steal the fire, synthesize them with the magic of creativity, birth a wonder in words, and let the memories flow back into the unconscious rivers of the mind. Yes, it's a skill that takes time to master. But to choose the power to create luminously over living -- that is the mindset of a person whose children I weep for.