Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

This lasted longer than I could describe even if I wrote pages and pages about it.

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

I grieve and dare not show my discontent,
I love and yet am forced to seem to hate,
I do, yet dare not say I ever meant,
I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate.
I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned,
Since from myself another self I turned.

My care is like my shadow in the sun,
Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it,
Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.