“The fruit tree and the human body are both receiving stations, capable of storing up energy, over-world energy.”

Imagining human beings and nature as receptive vessels for a larger creative energy · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Body
• Creativity
• Nature

“We cannot have the heat without the lump of coal.”

Emphasising that spiritual or creative intensity depends upon physical existence · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Body
• Creativity
• Life

“But the world of the great creative artists is never dead.”

Affirming the continuing vitality of genuinely creative art · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Art
• Creativity
• Eternity

“Into that over-mind, thoughts pass and are visible like fish swimming under clear water.”

Portraying thought as something perceived rather than deliberately manufactured · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Creativity
• Imagery
• Mind

“To shun, deny and belittle such experiences is to bury one's talent carefully in a napkin.”

Warning that denial of lived experience can suppress creative potential · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Creativity
• Experience
• Life

“No, my poetry was not dead but it was built on or around the crater of an extinct volcano.”

Describing creativity surviving around the remains of profound emotional upheaval · Memoir, End to Torment

• Creativity
• Memory
• Poetry

“I have all faith in my work. I feel my work is beautiful, I have a deep faith in it, an absolute faith.”

Expressing an unusually unequivocal confidence in the value of her writing · Letter to John Cournos, 1916

• Creativity
• Faith
• Writing

“Memory is the mother, begetter of all drama, idea, music, science or song.”

Presenting memory as the source from which creative and intellectual life emerges · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Art
• Creativity
• Memory

“Two or three people, with healthy bodies and the right sort of receiving brains, could turn the whole tide of human thought.”

Expressing faith in the transformative power of receptive and creative minds · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

• Change
• Creativity
• Mind