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Creative bliss
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.
“I was just shocked and I thought [the phrase] was so much better than I usually write,” he continued. “You don’t know why this happens, but, when it does, you get this feeling that is very close to bliss.”
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