When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

Their love was a bright flower, youthful and radiantly beautiful.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.