>>I wait for the day it dawns on you like the eclat of some heavenly visitation: anger does not sharpen the heart, but only blunts the mind.
That is not quite true. To pick an example sympathetic to your politics, Beethoven's anger at the aristocracy and later with Bonaparte, stimulated his middle period work such as in the Eroica. It also helped drive his later work, particularly his setting of Schiller in the Ninth, with its expression of universal brotherhood. The same passions are at work in his Choral Fantasy for piano, orchestra, and voices.
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