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“A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn’t.
A lot of people think or believe or know they feel—but that’s thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. And poetry is feeling—not knowing or believing or thinking.
Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting”
Can you be with your feelings? Do you let your friends, social pressure, partner, parents, or colleagues invalidate or discredit your feelings? Do you stand by what you know, what you see, what you hear? Do you trust your experiences? Can you find one moment a day that you can be nobody-but-yourself?