Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.