On Depression and Poetry

 Do you have to be nuero-a-typical to access the greatest beauty in the self and create it?

Does art necessarily create itself out of pain and an aching desire to create beauty or truth to soothe it?

Can we be our best selves and also our worst?

It is a paradox.

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