/lit/ - Literature

What do you think of this sentiment? We can extend the warrior side a bit too hard masculine work in general.
I think it's true, I think cultivating the "warrior" masculine side will make your ideas more tangible, less disconnected from reality, more in line with common sense.
Can you think of any authors that fit the bill, Tolkien comes to mind for me, he lost his four closest poetry friends from school, saw awful things, and goes on to write a book beloved by common people as well as more academic types. Contrast that with the slew of fantasy books largely written by no life nerds. You just can't write about violent death and hope and all that without having lived a certain kind of life.
Are you doing anything to cultivate your "warrior" side so your ideas will actually be grounded? If you accept the premise.

What do you think of picrel.
"A society that separates it's scholars from it's warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and it's fighting done by fools."
What literary figures meet his criteria?
Which ones evidently do not?

I'm inclined to agree, but am willing to expand the warrior side to include any kind of real manly work. I respect a fiction author a lot more if I know he lived a life and worked to support himself and others through hard physical work. And I suspect that if you're a soft comfy intellectual all your life then your ideas will be impractical and removed from reality and lacking common sense.
Personally I feel vindicated by this idea as I've been in the military for a short time (though didn't do anything besides training and disaster relief) and now have a manual but skilled job. I also agree with Plato that the ideas of men under 40 are worthless. So I intend to continue to study and work hard, and when I'm an older man I might finally have the dignity and experience required to add something real to the world. Probably through a fiction I want to write.
That's my dream but regardless I really agree with this idea, so discuss, I want to hear your thoughts, what are you doing to cultivate your "warrior" side?