. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures— it was cathartic for me to look at them, but I could imagine it might have been hell to make them (I was cheered / when I came first to know / that there were flowers also / in hell). No, I answered— how was it for you to read it? Aristotle, in his Poetics, never promised catharsis for the makers of art, only for the audience.