<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452611" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For the Young Who Want To</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Talent is what they say <br>you have after the novel <br>is published and favorably <br>reviewed. Beforehand what <br>you have is a tedious <br>delusion, a hobby like knitting. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Work is what you have done <br>after the play is produced <br>and the audience claps. <br>Before that friends keep asking <br>when you are planning to go <br>out and get a job. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Genius is what they know you <br>had after the third volume <br>of remarkable poems. Earlier <br>they accuse you of withdrawing, <br>ask why you don't have a baby, <br>call you a bum. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The reason people want M.F.A.'s, <br>take workshops with fancy names <br>when all you can really <br>learn is a few techniques, <br>typing instructions and some-<br>body else's mannerisms </div><div style="margin:10px 0">is that every artist lacks <br>a license to hang on the wall <br>like your optician, your vet<br>proving you may be a clumsy sadist<br>whose fillings fall into the stew<br>but you're certified a dentist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The real writer is one<br>who really writes. Talent<br>is an invention like phlogiston<br>after the fact of fire.<br>Work is its own cure. You have to<br>like it better than being loved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marge+Piercy">Marge Piercy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452611" data-title="For the Young Who Want To de Marge Piercy" data-description="Talent is what they say you have after the novel is published and favorably reviewed. Beforehand what you have is a tedious delusion, a hobby like knitting. Work is what you have done after the play is produced and the audience claps. Be..."></div> </div> </div>

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