A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
We can't tell our life from our wish
Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.
Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.