From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace
Many artists are skeptical of the claim that inspiration is a product of the unconscious mind. “I dislike learned talk about ‘the unconscious,’ which always seems to imply that the very intelligent are able somehow to know what they don’t know,” writes poet Wendell Berry. “Much of what I have written has taken me by surprise. What I know does not yield a full or adequate accounting for what I have imagined. It seems to have been ‘given.’ My experience has taught me to believe in inspiration, about which I think nobody can speak with much authority.”