Friday, September 5, 2008

MESSAGE #519 - KEEP ON KEEPING ON

“Every child
is born
an artist.

The trick
is
to remain

an artist.”

Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973)
artist

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Poet William Stafford (1914-1993) was once asked when he decided to become a poet. In answering, Stafford said the question was wrong. “Everyone is born a poet – a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is: ‘Why do other people stop?’”

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Champions
are
born
and
then
unmade.