I like Stanley Kunitz's advice to young poets "polarize their contradictions" which the author translates to mean"'cultivate your obsession' rather than therapeutically resolve it, try to make a full relationship with it." I also agree with earlier in the article where the author says that a poet without a true obsession may have too much time to think. In my own writing I find it so much easier to write when I do have something bothering me that has been consistently on my mind because for me, poetry has always been an outlet for my stresses and curiosities about life. The concept of obsession as a blessing is a really interesting perspective which I don't think I would have ever considered before.
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