Can an art be taught? Someone recently remarked to me that poetry can't be taught. It is an inborn talent. You are either born with it or don't have it. And frankly speaking this had been my notion too till recently. The idea that poetry can actually be taught to someone was far from my mind. Recently I read a book by Bob Ross the painter in which he teaches amateurs to paint step by step. It was a paragraph in that book in which actually revolutionized my thinking ....
