The Light of Creativity

The burden of creativity
is the burden of identity.
-David Whyte

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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.
To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
Add to this cruelly delicate organism
the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -
so that without the creating of music or poetry or books
or buildings or something of meaning,
his very breath is cut off from him.
He must create, must pour out creation.
By some strange, unknown,
inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.
-Pearl S. Buck

The creative instinct is, in its final analysis

and in its simplest terms,

an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy,
born inexplicably in an individual,
a vitality great beyond all the needs of his own living -
an energy which no single life can consume.
This energy consumes itself then in creating more life,
in the form of music, painting, writing,
or whatever is its most natural medium of expression.
Nor can the individual keep himself from this process,
because only by its full function
is he relieved of the burden of this extra and peculiar energy -
an energy at once physical and mental,
so that all his senses are more alert
and more profound than another man's,
and all his brain more sensitive and quickened
to that which his senses reveal to him
in such abundance that actuality overflows into imagination.
It is a process proceeding from within.
It is the heightened activity of every cell of his being,
which sweeps not only himself,
but all human life about him, or in him,
in his dreams, into the circle of its activity.
-Pearl S. Buck

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