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All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

Rollo May
Struggle, Creativity, Artist
Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

Rollo May
Struggle, Creative, Limits
Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

Rollo May
Struggle, Writing, Creativity
Rollo May (2011). “Love & Will”, p.320, W. W. Norton & Company

Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane.

Rollo May
Struggle, Issues, Self
Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

A dynamic struggle goes on within a person between what he or she consciously thinks on the one hand and, on the other, some insight, some perspective that is struggling to be born.

Rollo May
Struggle, Thinking, Hands
Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.59, W. W. Norton & Company

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