Potentially creative men…build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, last but not least, nutritionally in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.


Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958)

Erik Erikson Quotes

Potentially creative men…build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves,...

Potentially creative men…build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves,...

Potentially creative men…build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves,...

Potentially creative men…build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves,...