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"Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raise..." — Rodney Crowell
Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.
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