{"id":4763,"date":"2023-10-29T04:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/lucille-clifton-on-the-balance-of-intellect-and-intuition-in-creative-work-and-the-healing-power-of-connection-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-10-29T04:50:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:50:35","slug":"lucille-clifton-on-the-balance-of-intellect-and-intuition-in-creative-work-and-the-healing-power-of-connection-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/lucille-clifton-on-the-balance-of-intellect-and-intuition-in-creative-work-and-the-healing-power-of-connection-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every single thing we make, even the smallest, we make with the whole of who we are and what we have lived \u2014 with every impression and every memory, every love and every loss, consciously and unconsciously constellated into the creative act. A song encodes its maker\u2019s entire history of feeling. An equation cannot describe why an apple falls without its maker\u2019s entire understanding of how the universe works. The poetry of personhood \u2014 which we might call soul \u2014 is the raw material for all creative work. To hear its voice requires a delicate harmonizing of what we consciously know and what we unconsciously are \u2014 a syncopation of intellect and intuition. <\/p>\n

Thinking about this in the context of Virginia Woolf\u2019s meditation on how to hear your soul<\/a> and Nick Cave\u2019s insistence on the creative power of trusting yourself<\/a>, I was reminded of some wonderful passages I had saved from various interviews Lucille Clifton<\/strong> (June 27, 1936\u2013February 13, 2010) gave over the course of her long and luminous life.<\/p>\n

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