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Creativity And Doubt
“The only people who feel good about their writing are liars, egomaniacs or psychopaths. Everyone is scared. Everyone feels like a fraud…No one knows what the hell they are doing until, suddenly, they do.”
— Paisley Rekdal
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With different values, the arts are its primary mode of inquiry — a psychology of images that are not reduced to something other. Derived from attending to the sensory and psychic aspects of images, it lets them illuminate consciousness with their inherent meaning.
Hillman follows the ancients in insisting that the heart is the organ that perceives and feels the aesthetic impact of an encounter with an image — first the heart, then the mind. He further states: “psyche is image,” and to propose that we ourselves are images among images. [“An Inquiry into Image,” in Spring 1977]
— Iona Miller
…if you can literalize a meaning, “interpret” a dream, we are off track, we lost our koan (The dream is the thing, not what it means).”
— James Hillman
Whatever stirs
us to put together the few things we find,
it is we who flower from giving away
the nectar of our being.
