Terrance Hayes - Art is not the kind of thing ...

Art is not the kind of thing where you get what you put into it all the time. So I learned to not expect anything other than the sort of joy of having a poem in front of me.

Terrance Hayes

American Educator

Born: Nov 18, 1971

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Art, Time, Me, You, Joy, Other, Kind, Poem, Having, Put, Learned, Sort, Expect, Than, Get, Front, Where, Anything, Thing

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