" But though I have felt "free" only in the presence of works of the imagination, knowing the quickening of the sense which came of it, and though this experience has held me firm at such times, yet being of a slow but accurate understanding, I have not always been able to complete the intellectual steps which would make me firm in the position.
So most of my life has been lived in hell -- a hell of repression lit by flashes of inspiration, when a poem such as this or that would appear "

― William Carlos Williams , Spring and All