Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Everything we do has consequences.
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.