I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.
Life is first boredom, then fear.