Many writers, musicianss, and artistss create in solitude. Songwriters and poetss often write about solitude. Poetry gives comfort to people who feel alone. Poems give positive perspectives on being alone. Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Octavio Paz, Giannina Braschi, Donald Hall, and Anne Sexton wrote poems about solitude. Philosophers who encouraged solitude include Lao Tzu, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Virginia Woolf. Woolf wrote a famous essay called "A Room of One's Own" about writing in solitude and privacy. and privacy. 