Jurgen Wolff's Brainstorm E-Bulletin (July 2009) www.timetowrite.blogs.com relates a story which Michael Michalko - one of the top creativity gurus - told about his godfather, John Haffich, a poet who tried to encourage Michalko to write poetry. Michalko tried, but never felt they were good enough.
He picks up the story: "When he was in a nursing home and dying, I visited him and told him my thoughts about my inadequacies as a poet. He could barely whisper at the time and asked for a pencil and paper. He wrote the following poem and gave it to me with a smile."
Use what talents you have.
The woods would be silent
if no bird sang
except those that sang best.
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