the.com/melancholic
The art of being beautifully, productively, almost luxuriously sad.
means Prone to a deep, reflective, lingering sadness — less a crisis than a temperament.
from Greek melan (black) plus khole (bile); ancient doctors blamed your moods on a literal black sludge inside you.
Four humorsOne of medicine's classic personality juices.
Not depressionA mood and trait, not a diagnosis.
Poets' favoriteRomantics treated it as creative fuel.