“Lately I’ve been feeling that maybe
loneliness is a human sensation
given to us to drive us into
relationship,
even as hunger drives us to food and
tiredness drives us to sleep.
In that sense, it’s a beautiful gift,
for without loneliness to make us hurt,
some of us would wall ourselves in
and wither in our separateness.
As I’m driver into relationship
By my loneliness,
Life opens up to me again.
This is creative loneliness!
<W.E.HULME, Creative Loneliness. Why Go it Alone?
(1979) >
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