I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry. I was just an innocent kid messing around with words when an adult said ‘You’re a poet, be published or be damned’.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I have always loved playing around with words. I didn’t know it was called poetry. I was just an innocent kid messing around with words when an adult said ‘You’re a poet, be published or be damned’." in the context of "On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” in Writers & Artists" to mean that wisdom is timeless.