such is creativity...

“…such a chancy, unpredictable, unwilled and even in some ways unintentional process? It isn’t something you do, it’s something you find yourself doing, and doing compulsively. But in order to occur at all it requires; silence, inaction, free time to listen, an empty space into which the words may move. And poets, in my experience, spend a lot of time gazing out the window and the rest of it scribbling on the backs of envelops, when other people think they should be mowing the lawn.This is why the vocation of poetry creates such hazards, such pitfalls, in the course of ordinary social life, not only for the poet herself but for those around them… There is a lot of burnt toast in the lives of poets…”
- Margaret Atwood from ‘About Poetry’