There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Picture Quotes Maker

Top Authors

• Barack Obama

  44Th U.s. President

  Friday, Aug 04, 1961
  

• Plato

  Philosopher

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• Theodore Roosevelt

  26Th U.s. President

  Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
  Monday, Jan 06, 1919

• Stephen Covey

  Author

  Monday, Oct 24, 1932
  Monday, Jul 16, 2012

• Walt Whitman

  Poet

  Monday, May 31, 1819
  Saturday, Mar 26, 1892

• Joe Biden

  Vice President Of The United States

  Friday, Nov 20, 1942
  

• Kim Kardashian

  Television Personality

  Tuesday, Oct 21, 1980
  

• Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
  Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

• Nelson Mandela

  Former President Of South Africa

  Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
  Thursday, Dec 05, 2013

• Sun Tzu

  Strategist

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970

• John Muir

  Author

  Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
  Thursday, Dec 24, 1914

• John C. Maxwell

  Author

  Thursday, Feb 20, 1947
  

• George Bernard Shaw

  Playwright

  Saturday, Jul 26, 1856
  Thursday, Nov 02, 1950

• Henry David Thoreau

  Author

  Saturday, Jul 12, 1817
  Tuesday, May 06, 1862

• Deepak Chopra

  Author

  Wednesday, Oct 22, 1947