My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures-it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them {I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell}. No, I answered-how was it for you to read it? Aristotle, in his Poetics, never promised catharsis for the makers of art, only for the audience.
( Nick Flynn )
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