A guide to the art of not loving. First lesson: you have to forget, providing you also renounce hope. You must be firm in your intention, grit your teeth against your feelings. Hope clutters most things. Hope to love and you'll go and fall in love again. Where there is hope, there is no change.
No matter how much flair or skill you have, there's always someone who says simply your work's worth nothing; the artist honing, polishing, and perfecting over long years, some critic comes along and says 'No', and a lifetime's work is thrown away.