The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.