"possess talent" is a correct and usable phrase in written English. You can use it to describe someone having a particular skill or ability. For example, "She possesses an immense talent for singing.".
Both possess talent but life is rarely that straightforward.
Even so, the "skills society" needs only a relatively small number of the educated who possess talent.
He was to spend the rest of his days nurturing boys from varying walks of life, and from different nationalities, though homesickness and alienation into developing the most precious thing they possess: talent.
So far, the 18-year-old Roddick has been Exhibit 1 in a group of a young Americans that possess talent behind the scaffolding, Abercrombie-and-Fitch appeal to market and uncommon humility as a bonus.
But as the other cast members circle the lone Mr. Esparza, playing their instruments, it is clear they possess talents for connecting that Bobby lacks, fears and longs for.
Harrison recorded that a visitor to Kentucky remarked in 1825, "[Desha] is said by some to possess talents; I have never been furnished with evidence".
Though he possesses talent in abundance, Gourcuff also has an unfortunate habit of rubbing people up the wrong way.
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