M C Richards on Creativity

"We have to trust these feelings. We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do. Certain kinds of egotism and ambition as well as certain kinds of ignorance and timidity have to be overcome or they will stand in the way of that creator. and though we are well thought of by others, we will feel cross and frustrated and envious and petulant, as if we had been cheated, somehow, by life. "