![]() On the most difficult days, one can’t cross at all. Some days it is easier to make the crossing and to lose ourselves in the creative process some days it is much harder – and we rarely know which kind of day it will be in advance. That moment of crossing is a mythic moment – as potent as the old folk tales where the hero crosses running water (once, twice, three times) to enter Faerieland. all those small rituals we do each time, in order to clear the mind, to focus, to prepare for the crossing from the physical world to the realm of imagination. “Perhaps, in this non-animist age, few leave out wine and flowers anymore – but we still have our ‘Muse-summoning’ rituals & talismans: the favorite pen or brand of paper, coffee in a certain mug, paints arranged just so on the palette, the email box emptied or the phone switched off or the desk surface cleared before we can work. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.” – Carl Saganĭo you have a favorite quote about art/creativity and magic? Please feel free to leave it in the comments below! Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. ![]() Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.” – Anais Nin When I don’t write, I feel my world shrinking. We write to expand our world when we feel strangled, or constricted, or lonely. We write to teach ourselves to speak with others, to record the journey into the labyrinth. We write to be able to transcend our life, to reach beyond it. We write, like Proust, to render all of it eternal, and to persuade ourselves that it is eternal. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. We write to lure and enchant and console others.
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