"All my life I have been haunted by the fascinating questions of creativity. Why does an original idea in science and art "pop up" from the unconscious at a given moment? What is the relation between talent and the creative act, and between creativity and death? Why does a mime or a dance give us such delight? How did Homer, confronting something as gross as the Trojan War, fashion it into poetry which became a guide for the ethics of the whole Greek civilization?"
(from the preface to The Courage to Create, by Rollo May)
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Ah, these are questions which could preoccupy us for many lifetimes I think - and we still wouldn't get close to the answers... The creative act will always be a beautiful mystery.
"The Courage to Create" is one of my favorite Rollo May books, am. The only one I ever read twice, but, then, it's also one of his shortest.
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