"One's insight"

"I have long despised artists' chatter about muses - 'voices' that speak to them and enable a vision, the source of which they could not otherwise name. I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like 'Where do your ideas come from?' Or to escape inquiry into the fuzzy area between autobiography and fiction. I regarded the 'mistery' of creativity as a shield erected by artists to avoid articulating, analyzing, or even knowing the details of their creative process - for fear it would fade away."

"Whatever it is called - muse, insight, inspiration, 'the dark finger that guides', 'bright angel' - it exists and, in many forms, I have trusted it ever since."

Toni Morrison

Enjoy and keep awake

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