{"id":1657,"date":"2023-03-17T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/may-sarton-on-how-to-cultivate-your-talent-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T17:27:50","slug":"may-sarton-on-how-to-cultivate-your-talent-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/may-sarton-on-how-to-cultivate-your-talent-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"May Sarton on How to Cultivate Your Talent \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTalent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins,\u201d James Baldwin bellowed in his advice on writing<\/a>. \u201cBeyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.\u201d <\/p>\n

There is a reason we call our creative endowments gifts<\/em> \u2014 they come to us unbidden from an impartial universe, dealt by the unfeeling hand of chance. The degree to which we are able to rise to our gifts, the passionate doggedness with which we show up for them day in and day out, is what transmutes talent into greatness. It is the responsibility that earns us the right of our own creative force. <\/p>\n

That is what the great poet, novelist, and playwright May Sarton<\/a> (May 3, 1912\u2013July 16, 1995) explores in an entry from her altogether magnificent journal The House by the Sea<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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