It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.

