The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make.

-Simone Weil

I was talking to a friend on Sunday, and even though I've known this person for years, I guess we had never gotten to a point in conversation where I mentioned that I am a poet. He told me he had just written his first poem two days before, and then he read it to me....and it was really flippin' good! I listened to him read, and kept thinking how amazing it was that he felt more comfortable reading his first poem to a poet than I feel most of the time reading my poems to anyone. Writing this blog has been a great creative outlet for me, but I know I need to start writing poems again. Now. That experience and this quote (above) are going to be my inspiration to start making more time for writing.