Você pode estar pensando na história de Robert Silverberg Um Homem de Talento , mais tarde retrabalhada como Um homem com talento . Foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1956 e coletado em " As Canções de Verão e Outras Histórias " em 1979. Aqui está um resumo de Majipoor.com :
Emil Vilar is the last truly talented poet on Earth, but he lives in a society where real poetry, the kind written by the likes of Yeats or Pound, is not valued. So he decides to go somewhere else—the colony world of Rigel Seven, settled centuries ago by sixteen families. Surely they would appreciate a true poet. But when he gets there, he finds that everyone is a poet. And a musician. And a painter. The arts are cultivated in all people, and a mere poet seems pitifully under-cultured.