For the second time in a little more than a century a theory of selection by consequences is threatening a traditional belief in a creative mind. And is it not rather strange that although we have abandoned that belief with respect to the creation of the world, we fight so desperately to preserve it with respect to the creation of a poem? (p. 400)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 26: A Lecture on “Having” a Poem. Quote 12
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