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Brenda Ueland Quotes and Quotations
It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off. Everybody is talented, original, and has something important to say. Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable. Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life. We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious. In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself. |