Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.
One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.
Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.
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