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Many lives of talented poets and artists were a mess. Many died young. I still don't know whether living a life of misery leads to artistic mastery or not.
by DeathArrow 2y ago
Many lives of talented poets and artists were a mess. Many died young. I still don't know whether living a life of misery leads to artistic mastery or not.
- muzani 2y agoI feel like the main problem is it pays terribly. Most of the best ones were basically broke. But movie stars and pop stars are the opposite. They live in mansions and end up dying young anyway. Maybe great art just requires being deep in flow to the point you neglect everything around you.
- gabriel666smith 2y agoI think that a vocation - artistic or otherwise - creates a place of safety in any kind of chaos. Life can be as bad as it is, but so long as you believe: “on the page, things are good”, you can always go to work. I’m not sure if suffering leads to vocation, or if vocation induces neglect of the world that sits outside of that vocation, causing suffering. From my experience (certainly not Poe-tier) the causality is complicated - a cycle, probably starting with a little of both.