<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Defensione Sui</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a poet writes the words<br>floating in a sea of hopelessness and despair<br>he does not mean<br>that he goes around<br>with a big black raincloud over his head<br>he intends to convey<br>to his readers if he has any<br>and to himself if he has not<br>that we all despair at times<br>but does not intend them to think<br>that he is in a permanent state<br>of desiring to kill himself<br>and waiting for death to come<br>he does mean<br>that when the poem came to him<br>he was in a room with a large number of people in it<br>which he found conducive to poetic thoughts<br>and he could not hear what people were saying<br>because of the noise<br>but he did not immediately write it down<br>because someone started talking to him<br>but he wrote the words down that evening<br>by which time he felt fine<br>and he was not feeling particularly sad in any case<br>it was a metaphor</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Tuesday,8th November,2005.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Mitchell">David Mitchell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558859" data-title="In Defensione Sui de David Mitchell" data-description="When a poet writes the words floating in a sea of hopelessness and despair he does not mean that he goes around with a big black raincloud over his head he intends to convey to his readers if he has any and to himself if he has not that we all des..."></div> </div> </div>

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