“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”
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You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.