a broken heart can write, but after the heartbreaking time... the idea of the poet with tears in its eyes fits in Hollywood, but not in life...
I can agree with this, Muddy. My point has to do with the fact that the vast majority of those who share here aren't representing themselves as being "the poet" capturable on film, or in their personal life, either. Like Mr. Tanner, they write as he sang because "it just made him whole." *
In fairness to Sandra, though it was definitely part of my thinking, she was the one who specifically used the phrase "different cultures," unless you just happened to use "different places and cultures" as a paraphrase of what I said about non-native, English speakers. Bottom line, it's a perspective all three of us share.
You do much better than you may
think you do in making your points

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1% talent, 99% perseverance
I don't recall whether the percentages were exact [it may have been 5%, 95%], but the principle is the same, regarding what I've heard for a long time as to those who 'make it' and those who don't.
~ Lizzy
* I couldn't take it ~ just had to make the correction.