“For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Boston
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality.”
On Kate Bush
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.
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