Gwyneth Lewis Quotes

#1. The opposite of depression isn't feeling happy but being fully alive, however painful

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#2. When you're in the middle of your depression, pay good attention to it, because, tended carefully, you never know where it might lead you.

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#3. Cognitive therapists focus on getting patients to see the glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Being positive has become rather a fetish. A more radical tactic would be to abolish the need for evaluation and just accept the glass as it is, whether it be cracked or brimming.

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#4. The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.

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#5. Poetry has acquired a fluffy image, which is totally at odds with its real nature. It's not pastel colours, but blood-red and black. If you don't obey it as a force in your life, it will tear you to pieces.

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#6. What happened? Who killed me?

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#7. Creu Gwir fel gwydr o ffwrnais awen Creating truth like glass from the furnace of inspiration

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#8. Your positive thinker may do well in suburbia but I'd rather be with a lucid depressive in the Arctic, where survival depends on precision and not fooling yourself about your chances on the ice.

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