Virginia Woolf on Creativity
News Source : Themarginalian.org
News Summary
- Woolf argues that the creative impulse lies in the crucial difference between experiences that produced despair and the one that sparked satisfaction.
- As one gets older, one has a greater power to provide an explanation; and that explanation blunts the sledgehammer force of the despairing blow.
- Maria Popova is the author of the book Moments of Being (public library)
Only art penetrates the seeming realities of this world, Saul Bellow asserted in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of.
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