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In Real Artists Don't Starve, Jeff Goins says the romanticization of poverty and the myth of the starving artist is a flawed model for a creative life. "Don't starve for your art, thrive for it."
When I was a young poet living in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, I introduced myself to an English class where I was helping out. Several of the students began to argue, "No, you're not a poet, poets are depressed. They have terrible lives." The oddest part was that they didn't know me, but they had the perception that a poet would not be out in public, volunteering in an English class, or—smiling.
I get it. Depression, suicide, and also poverty characterize a lot of the best American and Russian poets. But that is a genuinely awful standard for aspiring creatives. Many of those poets, such as Emily Dickinson, died before seeing publication or being paid for their art. Emily Dickinson refused publication.
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