Jill,
Thanks for participating in this forum. I enjoyed the poems in the other thread. Thanks also for you generous responses in this thread -- it is an interesting discussion.
You said:
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Originally Posted by Jill Alexander Essbaum
I simply don't know an artist who doesn't have a relationship with The Source (call it what you will), whether they are religious or not, Christian or not, whether, even, they care to name it or not.
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Well, we haven't met. But seriously, I have heard this expressed by many people, and have discussed it a great deal with many friends -- poets and artists and others -- and I think I have some understanding of what they
mean by this "Source (call it what you will)" and the relationship they have with it. But such a relationship is not part of my experience, and resides for me in a category of experience that just isn't salient to me personally (though many people have tried to argue with me that is
is and I just don't recognize it or something -- which usually strikes me a condescending position, as if I haven't deeply thought about these things before arriving at whatever provisional conclusions I have reached).
Clearly, though, it is salient to you, and the relationship you describe seems to you to be deeply linked to your creative production. I wonder if you can describe the nature of that link, and if you can say something about folks like me who lack it. Is creativity apart from the "Source" imaginable to you? Is it limited without that relationship? I don't mean those questions to sound snarky or provocative -- I have no intention to start a debate or anything -- I am truly interested in the questions and your answers.
Best,
David R.