Phyllis Bottome - Creative Quotes

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The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less individual emotion. I sometimes think that migratory birds may have it for each other. They fly in the same direction, and have never been seen to interfere with each other's flights.

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Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

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Her religion was that of all artists — obedience to the laws of her creative art.

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Curiosity is the only thing that really carries through time, isn't it? The creative curiosity, I mean, which fights its way into expression?

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