“The thing is - fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”— William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“It’s always nice being wanted. Even if it’s by the wrong person.”— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
To hide something is to conceal it; to disguise something is to reveal it but only to those who know how and where to look. The very conventions of poetry were devised to encode experience, to make it less obvious and thereby more true. To make a metaphor, after all, is to describe something in terms of what it is not, the better to apprehend what it is.
“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventions, prejudices, and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
-Albert Einstein
