The parts that embarrass you the most are unusually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, the most representative, most universal… You really have to make a resolution just to write for yourself… in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.
Allen Ginsberg, paraphrasing what he learned from Jack Kerouac about the process of letting meaning emerge in your art.
STENDHAL SYNDROME: a giddy, debilitating stupor evoked by great art
