After a reading from his translation of Dante's Inferno, a boy in the audience asked America's former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky what his personal version of hell was.
The poet said that each of us creates our own hell. The fearful and negative interpretations of reality with which we infect our imaginations constitute curses that we cast on ourselves.
They terrify and enslave us so thoroughly that most of the difficult outer circumstances we encounter are mild in comparison.
--Rob Brezsny
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