Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. His opposition to Napoleon III kept him in exile in the Channel Islands for nearly twenty years. He campaigned against the death penalty, and more than a million people attended his funeral in Paris.
About this theme: Creativity
Creativity is usually discussed as inspiration arriving from outside, and least often as what it mostly is: work done on days when it does not want to be done. The tension is old. Antiquity had muses, Romanticism had genius, and the twentieth century had the working habits of writers who rose at five because otherwise nothing happened at all.
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- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.— Arthur Schopenhauer
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.— Rumi
- Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.— Benjamin Franklin
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
- You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.— Friedrich Nietzsche