Would You Still Write If No One Read Your Words?

Six Tuscan Poets by Vasari, dated 1544, can you find Dante among them? (Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota)

Would you still dance if no one watched or clapped?

Would you still make music if no one listened or cared?

Would you still write if you had no readers, not a single soul remotely interested in your stories?

There are two valid answers to all of…