The idea that talent and suffering go hand in hand in the life of
poetry has become legendary; and the “starving poet” is now an
all-too-familiar archetype. I think it’s time to blow some kisses to
this archetype and bid it adieu. Why? Because it keeps us small, scared
and struggling. And it keeps our poetry starved for something bigger in
us.
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