“A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Art of Literature”, Parerga and Paralipomena
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