Four stages of acceptance:
i) this is worthless nonsense;
ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view;
iii) this is true, but quite unimportant;
iv) I always said so.
Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods…
I could not fail to disagree with you less.
...poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil…