“Of all the great works that we can experience, nature is the most absolute and enduring. We can witness it change through the seasons. We can see it in the mountains, the oceans, the deserts, and the forest. We can watch the changes of the moon each night, and the relationship between the moon and the stars.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Yet he could not understand why he was so terribly attracted by her thighs, but he was, so much that he felt like taking the nerves of his body and coiling them one by one around them. The appetite of meat eating animals must be just this, coarse, voracious.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“Similarly, the total output of human creativity, in all its kaleidoscopic breadth, pieces together the fabric forming our culture. The underlying intention of our work is the aspect allowing it to fit neatly into this fabric. Rarely if ever do we know the grand intention, yet if we surrender to the creative impulse, our singular piece of the puzzle takes its proper shape.
Intention is all there is. The work is just a reminder.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Intention is all there is. The work is just a reminder.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“a clean honesty
about our otherness that feels
not like the moral but the story.”
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
about our otherness that feels
not like the moral but the story.”
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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