Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or No Trespassing signs. They throw suspension bridges across great distances. These elegant and unexpected combinations flow together beautifully in the twilight zone, where metaphor and resemblance rules in place of logic and classification.
Interpretation
Creative individuals excel at linking seemingly unrelated ideas and concepts.
This quote highlights the unique ability of highly creative individuals to draw connections between disparate ideas, allowing them to innovate and think outside conventional boundaries. It suggests that creativity transcends logical classifications, enabling unexpected pairings that can lead to profound insights and artistic expressions.
In practice
In a workshop on innovation, one might quote this to inspire participants to think outside the box.
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness with existence - then creativity is healthy. But if it does not arise out of meditation, out of silence and peace and understanding and love, then there is a danger. It may be arising out of your confused mind. It may be arising out of your insanity.
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