I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa.
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.
In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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