Why not continue to believe in our creative powers if the belief gives us satisfaction? . . . To accept a wrong explanation because it flatters us is to run the risk of missing a right one—one which in the long run may offer more by way of “satisfaction.” (p. 400)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 26: A Lecture on “Having” a Poem. Quote 13
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