The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that when someone is abstaining from something, they may occasionally produce some low-quality poems, but these are not very important or interesting. In other words, the poems created during a period of abstinence are not likely to be very good, so they don't deserve much attention.
About Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian doctor and psychoanalyst who made significant contributions to the field of psychiatry. He developed influential theories on character analysis and orgone energy, leading to innovations in body psychotherapy. Despite his groundbreaking work, Reich faced controversy and legal troubles later in his life.
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
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The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.
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Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life’s pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
Austro-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897-1957)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
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