When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Tony Hoagland
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you...
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you...
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you...
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you...
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Some of us are not born with the ability to express our thoughts and feelings eloquently. Because of that, we have to learn by trial and error. We have to read through books of poetry until we finally find a poet who expresses what we want to say. Once we do, we are grateful to have found the key to unlock our inner feelings. Everyone has something inside them that they want to express, whether it is love or sadness or happiness or anger, but the only way to unlock those feelings is through writing or speaking or singing or dancing or any other form of art.

Source: Ploughshares

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