I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
Mark TwainTo be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.
Mark Twain