To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. Robert Graves To be great is to be misunderstood. There is a sacred horror about everything grand. There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.
Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide.