“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”

“It is strange the way ideas come when they are needed.”

“We do not know until the shell breaks what kind of egg we have been sitting on.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/11/25/beethoven-on-creativity/

"You give too much, less would have been better; but that lies in the nature of heaven-scaling youth, which never thinks it possible to do enough. It is a fault maturer years will correct, however, and I still prefer a superfluity to a paucity of ideas."
— Ludwig van Beethoven

"...my memory is so faithful to me that I am sure not to forget a theme which I have once conceived, even after five years have passed. I make many changes, reject and reattempt until I am satisfied...so that all that is left is the work of writing it down."

why not plan on being so good that people are mad at you 200 years after you're dead because you've made it so difficult to be as good as you?

why not start there? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/deus-ex-musica

YOUR NAME HERE was so crushingly sublime that posterity capitulated

happy birthday eve to the tweet that started this thread