motivational – codeberean

The loser who never gave up

December 11, 2017
Blog Post

Now, the better reason to keep your job is that when you’re not working on your art—when you’re not thinking about it—your unconscious will be working on it. A great deal of A.E. Houseman’s poetry was composed when he was away form his desk. He habitually took a stroll for two or three hours a day. It was then, he remarked, that “sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza at once,” would spring into his mind.

— R.O. Blechman (Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator)