the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

Depression is useful. It signals that you need to make changes in your life, it challenges your tendency to withdraw, it reminds you to take action.

These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are the truthsayer with quill and torch. Write with your tongues of fire. Don't let the pen banish you from yourself.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.