Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninterest
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| Georgie Fame, Musician (1943) |
| Warren Farrell, Writer (1943) |
| Milton Glaser, Designer (1929) |
| Chris Isaak, Musician (1956) |
| Derek Jeter, Athlete (1974) |
| Lord Kelvin, Scientist (1824) |
| Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman (1963) |
| John Langdon, Politician (1741) |
| Greg LeMond, Athlete (1961) |
| Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Theologian (1988) |
| Simon Cameron, Politician (1889) |
| Roy Campanella, Athlete (1993) |
| Nora Ephron, Author (2012) |
| James Weldon Johnson, Poet (1938) |
| Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Musician (1997) |
| Karl Landsteiner, Scientist (1943) |

