Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "Women Who Run With The Wolves", Rider UK 1992

"Creating one thing at a certain point in the river feeds those who come to the river, feeds creatures far downstream, and yet others in the deep. Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. That is why beholding someone else's creative word, image, idea, fills us up, inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break through stone." 

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