CYCLE OF CREATIVITY

CYCLE OF CREATIVITY

An Inspiration,
A Passion filled Embrace,

Now upon a Guarded Shelf,
Use by Inept,
Shackles, Chains, and Grief,
with no life.

A Concept,
A Beating Heart, and Breath,

Now placed into a World,
and going forth,
finding Place and Purpose,
Use and Growth.

A Word,
A Mind, A Soul, Made Flesh.

Now Found within the Realm,
Brought to Embrace,
Carresed with Adept Care,
a new Place.

A moment of pain,
A moment of joy,
A moment of...
...Inspiration...

Mon. July 14, '03
W.W.Mims

["If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me . . . .

Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody."
         a letter by, Thomas Jefferson, 1813]

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