This telling observation by Ralph Waldo Emerson, applied to creative endeavors, speaks to the powerful notion of sidestepping the intellectual and yielding to the emotional:
The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety … and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment.
