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I read this post this morning, & then this evening I was reading “Everything Sad Is Untrue (A True Story)” by Daniel Nayeri [note: I just noticed the parentheses in the title as I typed it out. How perfect!] when I read the following lines & thought they went well with what you described above:

“Does writing poetry make you brave? It is a good question to ask. I think making anything is a brave thing to do. Not like fighting brave, obviously. But a kind that looks at a horrible situation and doesn’t crumble.

“Making anything assumes there’s a world worth making it for. That you’ll have someplace, like a clown’s pants, to hide it when people come to take it away.

“I guess I’m saying making something is a hopeful thing to do.

“And being hopeful in a world of pain is either brave or crazy.”

If you haven’t read this book, the clown’s pants reference won’t make a ton of sense, but I think the quote still works.

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