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Magic Lessons Ep. 204: “Who Gets To Decide Whether You're A Legitimate Artist?" featuring Mark Nepo

Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert

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"I stopped writing completely. I have a perpetual and desperate fervor for art of every form, but poetry is the way it spills out of me," she says. "Since i've pieced myself back together, i write again, but i cannot find the purpose or passion project that writes this handicapping event many incredible and successful poets deemed my talents insufficient."

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