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Astonishing bursts of creativity: The Blood Flow is Poetry, there’s no Stopping it

Anita Mathias — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:41:00 +0000

The Blood Flow is Poetry: There’s No Stopping ItI think of the wonderful poet Rainer Maria Rilke who gathered up strength and sweetness all his life as he struggled with a writers’ block which lasted for decades, indeed intermittently all his life. And then, in his phraseology, the angel came. And he wrote the beautiful Duino […]

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C.S. Lewis’s Discovery/ Recovery of Creativity, Magic and the Imagination in the Depths of Christianity

Anita Mathias — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:42:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis’s Discovery/ Recovery of Creativity, Magic and the Imagination in the Depths of Christianity Owen Barfield noted that there were three Lewises–Lewis, the scholar, whose critical books are still read today; Lewis, beloved children’s and science fiction writer; and Lewis, the Christian writer and apologist. That is astonishing. Lewis also wrote a beloved memoir, Surprised […]

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C.S. Lewis on Originality and creativity

Anita Mathias — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:28:00 +0000

C.S. Lewis on Originality and Creativity Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring tuppence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. […]

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