“But poet Terrance Hayes is at peace with it now, the notion that 15 minutes is all he might get out of 24 hours. Now, he seizes those 900 seconds and immerses in them. He no longer frets that in any single day there may not be more creative time.
That wasn’t always the case. ‘For a long time, I put a lot of pressure on myself to try to get it all, to get more,’ he says. ‘I felt deep anxiety about how much I was missing. It’s like Arghh!, I haven’t read enough books, and I said something really smart an hour ago but now I have forgotten it.’ Even in his sleep, he fretted. The anxiety over what he might be missing sent waves of frustration and fragments of ideas crashing into his dreams.”
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