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1. matthewsinclair ◴[] No.44472986[source]
> “There is a moment, just before creation begins, when the work exists in its most perfect form in your imagination.”

I think TS Eliot said this exact thing, but more poetically, in “The Hollow Men” (1925):

> “Between the conception and the creation, falls the Shadow”

Which remains one of my all time fave pieces of writing. So much said in so few words.