Creativity

“Your personal canon reflects your intellectual and creative foundation, the influences that have formed your worldview, guided your thinking, or left a permanent mark on you. It’s a record of the things that have shaped you—intellectually, emotionally, and aesthetically.

I consider a personal canon a tool for intentionality. When so much of what we

there is an italian phrase: ‘gazofilacio’ meaning: treasure chamber of the mind. it is the word given to the ragged little store of poems you carry inside of you, wherever you go, always intimately rekindling and redirecting your attention.

the truest books are “mirrors” in which we discover not the writer’s wisdom, but our own.

"The role which the artist plays in society is to revive the primitive, anarchic instincts which have been sacrificed for the illusion of living in comfort… It is not the most comfortable life in the world but I know that it is life, and I am not going to trade it for an anonymous life in the brotherhood of man—which is either sure death, or quasi-

There are three points of view from which a writer can be considered: he may be considered as a storyteller, as a teacher, and as an enchanter.

A major writer combines these three — storyteller, teacher, enchanter — but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer…

The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, less

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses.

All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences.

Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes

Create your own syllabus. Choose a theme: mythology, a specific era, philosophy, shadow-work, etc.

Choose books, essays, films, and videos. Give yourself a set amount of time to move through it. This is your private university. You’re the professor and student.

Let your art be a library of your life.

A museum of memories, reflections, and beauty of this life that you’ve lived here.