天赋都是马后炮。

 

For the young who want to

BY MARGE PIERCY

Talent is what they say

you have after the novel

is published and favorably

reviewed. Beforehand what

you have is a tedious

delusion, a hobby like knitting.

 

Work is what you have done

after the play is produced

and the audience claps.

Before that friends keep asking

when you are planning to go

out and get a job.

 

Genius is what they know you

had after the third volume

of remarkable poems. Earlier

they accuse you of withdrawing,

ask why you don’t have a baby,

call you a bum.

 

The reason people want M.F.A.’s,

take workshops with fancy names

when all you can really

learn is a few techniques,

typing instructions and some-

body else’s mannerisms

 

is that every artist lacks

a license to hang on the wall

like your optician, your vet

proving you may be a clumsy sadist

whose fillings fall into the stew

but you’re certified a dentist.

 

The real writer is one

who really writes. Talent

is an invention like phlogiston

after the fact of fire.

Work is its own cure. You have to

like it better than being loved.

所有跟帖： 

• writing的人很多，能成为real writer的人很少，这中间的差别绝对不是努力和意志力就能说明的 -两女宝妈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:01:33

• 你家女儿要申请大学了？ -A-mao- ♂ (39 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:02:39

• 来着不是为了申请大学~~~ -SwiperTheFox- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:30:36

• 买彩票的人很多，其中能中奖的，绝对不是靠努力和意志力就能解释的。在紫檀，这就叫天赋 -avw- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:17:13

• 哈哈哈，在紫檀这叫运气 -两女宝妈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:21:30

• 不靠努力和意志力就能成功，那就是天赋了吧。 -icando2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:23:14

• 还有运气呢 -两女宝妈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:33:45

• 对，运气可能更重要。 -icando2- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2023 postreply 06:44:06