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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

Elizabeth Bear
Frustration, Able, Lifetime
Elizabeth Bear (2006). “The Chains That You Refuse”, Nightshade Book
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.