The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane. " But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.