Kay Redfield Jamison Quote
These qualities—independence, contrariness, ambition, toughness, receptiveness to experience—are the blood supply to a creative mind and temperament; they are wellspring to imagination. The ferocity and peculiarity that shadowed him when he was a boy later made their own contributions to the man and to his poetry. Lowell recognized that he could be remarkable. When he was eighteen he wrote in a school essay that the accomplishments of man are unlimited…when he places all the strength of his mind and body to the task, a new almost divine power takes possession of him. The enlightened mind is always questioning itself, always seeking means of self-improvement, and always striving for something higher. While still in school, his friend Frank Parker
These qualities—independence, contrariness, ambition, toughness, receptiveness to experience—are the blood supply to a creative mind and temperament; they are wellspring to imagination. The ferocity and peculiarity that shadowed him when he was a boy later made their own contributions to the man and to his poetry. Lowell recognized that he could be remarkable. When he was eighteen he wrote in a school essay that the accomplishments of man are unlimited…when he places all the strength of his mind and body to the task, a new almost divine power takes possession of him. The enlightened mind is always questioning itself, always seeking means of self-improvement, and always striving for something higher. While still in school, his friend Frank Parker
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