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Originally Posted by Susan McLean
I don't believe in magic. I believe in putting in time in a chair at a desk for 1-4 hours most days
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I don’t think they are mutually exclusive. Someone – I think it was Frost or Yeats or Auden – said something to the effect that the Muse will only come to take tea with us if we set a place for her. In other words, if you don’t sit down to write, you’ll never write anything inspired.
'Magic' is a rough word. But the really great metaphor, the unique rhyme, the keen insight, the intuition – where do they come from? I don’t think we know. Thus we call it ‘the Muse’.
Slightly OT, but I recently read Philip Glass’s delightful autobiography
Word Without Music. He opens the book asking himself the question ‘Where does music come from?’ He never answers it.