Craft
The key to creative success.
“What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you’re a poet. But there isn’t one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn’t any formula for it.”
–Erica Jong
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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
— T. S. Eliot