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“To be great”, as the American poet once insisted, “is to be misunderstood”. Seven words that perhaps on the face of it could be seen as demeaning the application and hard work it takes to be considered touched by genius, to be of the soil and the clay and see the stars clearly and without exaggeration: but Ralph Waldo Emerson showed that greatness is often cursed by those not willing to comprehend the sacrifice made, the sense of madness, the beauty in the mayhem as the art flows, as what is with the human soul comes alive and breathes in the nectar of the illustrious.