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John Oakley's avatar

"Creativity, the key to ongoing fulfillment! " I like that. I've just started writing poems as an art form I can do with one hand and almost useless legs.

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David Pinder's avatar

Bravo, John. As it happens, in the Lord Saatchi speech that I referenced, he made the point that creativity is always fashioned from just three humble tools - words, pictures, music - and went on:

Consider just one of these powers – words, when they are the only possible words in the only possible order.

Words in poetry. When John Keats was writing in a coffee shop he asked his friend, Stevens:

"A thing of beauty is a constant joy. What think you of that, Stevens?"

No response. Keats carried on scribbling. An hour later he said:

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."

"That", said Stevens, "will last forever." And it did.

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