make the gold of your poem
3rd April 2017 | for Creatives | creative process, magic/mystery of creating/art, writing, poetry, ideas, Medbh McGuckian |
"People think you make the gold of your poem out of nothing like Midas or something, but you don't. You make the gold of your poem out of the seams of ore that you find."
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