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Magic Lessons Ep. 208: “Leap Into the Fire” featuring Martha Beck

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

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How Little Is It Going to Take for You to Believe That You're Not a Poet?

Hope Hill: How little is it going to take for you to believe that you're not a poet? She asks, what's the dramatic idea of stopping writing entirely. Hope Hill: If i wold really shop to the stars, wl ik, submitted my best poems and they turned me down, i think i would be disappointed and hurt. But knowing myself and knowing that i'm a baby poet, i wouldn't take it personally.

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