Still valid nowadays:
Happyness writes using white ink and leaves no trace.
EP
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From: Chris Hayden <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 4:22 PM
Subject: Artists In Extremis--Ya gotta suffer?
> "a full and living voice seemingly natural though often using the language
> of a personal poetic idiom. I mean the true vocal cadence of something
> urgently communicated--the best words in the best order--yes. But
mpowered
> by sincerity and inspiration."--Siegfried Sassoon
>
> Do some artists need pressure to create? In some does their art flow from
> pain?
>
> Sassoon quoted above--some think his best work came from/during the times
he
> spent in the Trenches in WWI. Others feel the same about the work
Etheridge
> Knight produced in prison.
>
> Some artists' best work is their earliest--"Song of Myself", "Howl" and
> "Kaddish" produced when Whitman and Ginsberg were unknown and hungry for
> recognition.
>
> Is it true what they say--"Ya gotta suffer?"
> Is great art--like diamonds--the product of pressure?
>
> Chris Hayden
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