married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.
For a poet, style is the only morality.
As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.
Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.
Longing is all that lasts.