January 2011
10 posts
chariya:
“Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.”
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“A mighty pain to love it is,
And ‘tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of...”
– Abraham Cowley
“I like people too much or not at all.
I’ve got to go down deep, to fall...”
– Sylvia Plath
“People are always saying you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite...”
– “My so-called life” (Tv Show, 1994), by Angela