being a creative human

Poet and professor Ross Gay on abandoning capitalistic achievement to seek the freedom of play – The Creative Independent

In short I tried to think. I failed. My attention veered inexorably back to the specific, to the tangible…All I knew then was what I couldn't do. All I knew then was what I wasn't, and it took me some years to discover what I was. Which was a writer. By which I mean not a “good” writer or a,“bad” writer but simply a writer, a person whose most abso

“For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot “of people never get past this phase, they quit….If you are just starting out or you are still in t