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Why Creative Expression Demands Your Native Language

I speak perfect English but write poetry only in Portuguese and wonder if I'm hiding my true artistic voice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Artistic authenticity may require access to the linguistic patterns that formed one's earliest aesthetic sensibility.

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