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“Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.”

— Rollo May, The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 6: On the Limits of Creativity, p. 115

About Rollo May

1909 – 1994

American existential psychologist, author of "Love and Will" and "The Courage to Create".

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