“Enforced solitude, as in solitary confinement, is a terrible and disorienting punishment, but freely chosen solitude is an immense blessing. To be out of the rattle and clang of quotidian life, to be away from the garbage of other people's amusements and the overflow of their unwanted subjectivities, is the essential escape. Solitude is, beyond question, one of the worlds great gifts and an indispensable aid to creativity, no matter what level that creation may be hatched at.”
Things I Didn't Know (2006)
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Source: Prodigal Summer (2000).
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 448
Original: Le persone creative amano la solitudine. È fondamentale, durante una riflessione o un momento creativo, avere intorno a sé un silenzio totale, per confidare al proprio corpo le idee della mente.
Source: prevale.net
“Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.”
"Susan Cain: Quiet revolutionary" speaker profile at TED.com, February 2012 (est.)
Variant: What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.”
The Revenge, Act IV, sc. i.