What we think in our minds we are so hesitant to commit to paper, not because we don’t have the capacity, but because we have a natural human fear of the boundary between the internal and the external. Psychology and sociology both provide analyzes and interpretations for how from our earliest days of life we avoid and fear the passage of matter, both physical and emotional, from within our bodies into the real world. Our deep psychological interest/disturbance/contemplation/relationship with blood is one example.
We have all lived through the experience of being immersed in an ocean of creative thought and yet when we sit down to commit these thoughts to paper nothing comes out. Our aversion to the permanence of the real world, an experience we directly transfer onto the black and white shapes of letter and verse, prohibits all but the most complete, succinct drops of creative juices to flow forth from our minds.
This is a shame because our minds do not function in complete production. We seldom produce a complete product, and even if we do it can almost always be improved upon. We must become comfortable with the imperfection and incompleteness of human thought, and, ironically, only then will our creativity be allowed to become more complete and less imperfect. We must liberate our creative flow by adjusting our own perspectives.
