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If what you do and how you live does not feed the fire in your heart and blossom in poems or dances or art or painting or film, then you got to leave and quit and do not turn back, you got to move away from that which would mold your gift, break it, disrespect it, or kill it. You've got to guard it and nurture it and take your full-flung honorable heart and plunge it into the fire, into the stars, into the trees on a windy day, into the hearts of others' grieving sorrow, and you got to love and restore them, restore the dream by writing of its again-discovered wild beauty. I tell you, if it does not feed the fire of your creativity, then you have got to leave!