English transcript

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry,

fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame,

but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously, I mean, starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives.

Draw a funny or nice picture of Miss Lockwood and give it to her.

Dance home after school and sing in the shower and on and on.

Make a face in your mashed potatoes.

Pretend you're Count Dracula.

Write a six-line poem about anything but rhymed.

Make it as good as you possibly can, but don't tell anybody what you're doing.

Don't show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever.

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces and discard them into widely separated trash receptacles.

You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem.

You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's inside you, and you have

made your soul grow.