My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My work is of me; it's not me. I want it to be far more extraordinary than I am.
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.
The type of work I like is pure and simple and profound.
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
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