Creativity
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Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.
In chaos, there is fertility.
I believe the most important thing for humankind is its own creativity. I further believe that, in order to be able to exercise this creativity, people need to be free.
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards
Inspiration comes of working every day
A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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