Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska put it beautifully...
In Praise of Self-Deprecation
The Buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.
Scruples are alien to the black panther.
Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.
The self-critical jackal does not exist.
The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live as they live and are glad of it.
The killer-whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.
There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the Sun.
This poem caused a paradigm shift in my life and when I reread the poem just now it re-emphasized the importance of poetry - and it all was 'a posteriori' thinking.
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