In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
“To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.”
“People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.”