Reconnecting to the Muse

Psychology Today | 29.04.2026 23:04
In addition to being a psychologist, I am a poet. I never consciously intend to write poems; the impulse just comes to me from time to time. Sometimes a line or a phrase of a poem comes into my head, or sometimes an idea or a framework for a whole poem. Then I sit down and start writing. It’s partly a process of crafting the raw material into a finished, structured whole and partly a process of remaining open, to allow other material to flow through and become part of the whole.