http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...lth_poets_dc_1
It makes you wonder..
What if you're a poet and novelist?
Take care all.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...lth_poets_dc_1
It makes you wonder..
What if you're a poet and novelist?
Take care all.
I'm glad I'm not a poet.
Mugwumps, hi-jumps, low slumps, big bumps
i used to be a poet but...i kinda lost my insperation to write so guess i'll live long..
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Welcome, Ryoko Masaki.
You last visited: 05-12-2004 at 02:48 PM
I write off and on. All depends on inspiration. So I hope I live awhile.
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They're supposed to play the role of the suffering artist, so why does this come as a surprise to anyone?
I don't believe this report for a second.
I like Kung-Fu.
...And how the living hell can poetry be bad for you?
"Because some page on the internet said it is"
I like Kung-Fu.
That makes perfect senseOriginally Posted by brokensailor8335
correlation = causation fallacy pls.
Then let me die young.
I'm not going to stop doing something that I love because of something like this.
I have a signature now. Am I cool yet?
what about composers who also are poets on the side?
Depends on whether their poetry was noticed
Time for angsty poetry! Everybody join!
Dark brooding mist
The moon is swallowed by the eclipsed hate
My anger transcends into wrath
My suicide is empty
In the summer months the average amount of crime in urban areas increases, so surely heat incites unsavory and immoral activity.
i generally put little stock in these sorts of studies. It's been postulated that creative literary genius often comes hand in hand with certain psychological disorders, or perhaps even the other way around. And hey, i can't even say that's absolutely wrong, because maybe the sensitivity of perception or mindset or etc. that it takes to be a good writer leaves a person more prone to being messed up. Or maybe people convinced they're messed up decide to become writers, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Or maybe all these studies are just too focused on finding issue in the creative world, because i'm sure you could find similar lifespan discrepancies between, say, plumbers and welders and truck drivers. Or accountants and economists. Or any number of other jobs. And there could be innumerable reasons to explain any of them beyond their job selection. Maybe slightly more stressed people on average become accountants. i don't know.
Anyway, PG's got it: Correlation does not equal causation. That's some basic rational law right there, so either this article was stupified to a truly <i>ad absurdam</i> degree - so simplified as to be logically unreasonable - or somebody just made an unscientific case study. i'd assume the former, but you never know.
(-o-)
-tie fighter