Creative bliss

June Sullivan

Originally appeared on spirituality.com

“One second it didn’t exist,” explained musician Paul Simon during a recent television interview. “And in the next six seconds it was there.”

Simon was referring to the poetic phrase—“like a bridge over troubled water/I will lay me down”—which came to him suddenly and was to become the refrain of the title song of Simon and Garfunkel’s final album together.

About the author

June Sullivan lives in Lawrence, New York, United States.

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