Poetical Irritability

This is for Roomie. I finally think I understand you...I think. You, my love, are a poet.

Poetical Irritability by Edgar Allen Poe

"That poets (using the word comprehensively, as including artists in general

and you are an artist

are genus irritabile, is well understood; but the why, seems not to be commonly seen.

you came back from Mississippi the first time different and we didn't understand it

An artist is an artist only by dint of his exquisite sense of Beauty--a sense affording him rapturous enjoyment, but at the same time implying, or involving, an equally exquisite sense of Deformity of disproportion. Thus a wrong--an injustice...excites him...

from talking on the phone with you admit that you get worked up ;) ...this next part is beautiful!

Poets see injustice never where it does not exist--but very often where the unpoetical see no injustice whatever. Thus poetical irritability has no reference to "temper" in the vulgar sense, but merely to a more than usual clear-sightedness in respect to Wrong:--this clear-sightedness being nothing more than a corollary

(a deduction from a proposition already proved true)

from the vivid perception of Right--of justice--of proportion--in a word,

here is my favorite, I think...

of Beauty (in Greek).

I can't write in Greek on this blog. Most wouldn't call Poe Christian, but I would. I honestly from reading him don't think that is too far fetched. If not then you have to admit he knew A LOT about faith, and one that seems Christian. But either way, from a Christian perspective, how beautiful is this!!?!?!

But one thing is clear--that the man who is not "irritable," (to the ordinary apprehension,) is no poet." -Graham's Magazine, May 1849

Roomie,
Any time you want to call and vent some poetical irritability to me I would be honored to get excited with you, honored to have you show me where there is injustice in this world. May you always hold on to and utilize, to the best of God's ability through you, this "poetical irritabilty" and continue to see through the "veil of the soul" and then show us where this world needs our help. If our hands are dirty or bloody from hurting this world may you help us stop. If they are clean may you tell us where we can get in there and help.