The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. This is an American stereotype that has little to do with personality as a vehicle for human interaction. It fails to recognize that the personality and its inner organization are the supreme implements for adaptation in its widest sense. It is not a matter to be dismissed lightly. It is of the highest social importance.
Words are like bullets in truth's bandolier, and poets are truth's snipers.
Thus, poets are the mad midwives of reality. To be a true poet is to become God. Intelligence is the extent to which one can profit from experience, while maturity is the extent to which one can profit from other people's experience.