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Why did you stop selling your art? Because no one loves it as much as I; no one else can look at the girl with the orange, purple and pink hair and remember how much fun I had working on her. Why did you not think you were a poet? I truly did not know, or care. All I knew, was that my soul required me to pick up a pen and begin to write. Some said it was poetry. I do not care because I am unconcerned. I am the Monet of myself, creating and re-creating, over and over and over, never getting it quite right. I paint the same thing a hundred times, and I shall not stop, for I have not satisfied myself yet, Satisfying me is what my art is about. When I have written or drawn or painted or danced that which thoroughly fills my soul self and takes me to the next level, I shall stop. But not a moment sooner. So step out of the way, you are in my light.

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Date: 12/12/2018 6:09:00 AM
You go girl! We do it because we are compelled to do so and if we don't we'll be haunted by our muses forever. Write, pen, paint, "just do it"!
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 12/12/2018 6:28:00 AM
And Nike's motto finally makes sense for the first time ever, thanks to this comment, M.L.

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