A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

Jim Harrison
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that...
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that...
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that...
A poet must discover that it’s his own story that...
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This quote has a lot of weight in the literary world. A poet is a person who writes a story. The poet must discover that it is his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. If the poet is going to be a good writer, he needs to think about his story and discover what it means. The story can be about something as simple as a rabbit eating carrots, or it can be about the Holocaust or slavery or whatever else might have been going on in the world at that time.

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