Defeatists,Apologists and Queers

I sometimes wonder.

Why are artists and poets not considered as 'mainstream people'?

Are they weird,queer or what?

Take the following cases.

John Keats killed himself after being spurned by a lover. Yet he wrote one of the greatest poem "Ode to a Grecian Urn"-where we find the oft quoted line,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty."

There there is that great artist-Vincent Van Gogh-with his overflowing talent in creating art pieces-of which "Starry,starry Night" was the epitome of his work. Yet, he went mad, cut off his ear, used some of his blood to paint and finally shot himself in the heart and perished.

Then we have William Shakespeare-wasn't it possible that he was a gay in those bygone days, falling in love with a young man which he so affectionately put into lines in Sonnet 18??

They were defeatists,possibly queer in their own way.

But the world,similarly, is one big funny farm. Sadly, we are apologists and suckers for art. We posthumously recognised these talented people ages after they have gone from this earth. Their art pieces are worth millions these days, a testimony of what is their real worth in the world of art.

It's rather strange that oftentimes we recognised talent too late to reward them in their own times. Most artists were destitute at their death.

How sad!