I really like the following observation by Wordsworth of poetry:<\/p>\n
\n“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I think this is true of all forms of creativity. When I am in an emotionally overwrought state, I find it impossible to create. In effect, all of the circuits are jammed by emotions that are too powerful to channel in any useful way.<\/p>\n
But my memories of such moments are pure gold, creatively speaking. I can endlessly mine my recollection of those highly emotional moments, and use them to infuse art.<\/p>\n
I wonder whether this is a general state of the human condition. Is the general story behind the soaring melody of an aria, or a painting that renders us speechless with its transcendent beauty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I really like the following observation by Wordsworth of poetry: “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” I think this is true of all forms of creativity. When I am in an emotionally overwrought state, I find it impossible to create. In effect, all of … Continue reading “Emotion recollected in tranquility”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23129,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23128\/revisions\/23129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}