Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.”
The Five faces of Corruption, p. 45
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
The Artist's Way (1992)
Context: All too often too often we try to push, pull, outline and control our ideas instead of letting them grow organically. The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. <!-- p. 195
“A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.”
Poems (1869), A Strip of Blue (1870)
Context: A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.
The fringes of eternity, —
God's sweeping garment-fold,
In that bright shred of glittering sea,
I reach out for and hold.
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" - Written February 1924, published May-June-July 1924 in Weird Tales
Fiction
“[Art is].. the mysterious expression of the mysterious..”
Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 17
