“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...”
“It has been a very long time since I've received a gift as extraordinary as you.”
“❤Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering”
“He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.”
“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
“Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions.”