One must have chaos within oneself if one is to be a dancing star.
      - Friedrich Nietzsche

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not the woman. Such a separation may seem childish, but it is possible. Subtract the over-intensity, the sizzling of ideas, and you get a woman who loves perfection. And faithfulness is one of the perfections. It seems stupid and unintelligent to me now because I have bigger plans in mind. Perfection is static, and I am in full progress. The faithful wife is only one phase, one moment, one metamorphosis, one condition.
  - Anais Nin, Henry and June. 

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
      - Christopher Morley

. . .

Well, maybe not madness
But creative work emerges out of
Wildness, a place without rules.

Rules, conformity, boredom
Stifle imagination
Stifle creativity.

Creativity is a search for a new path
A new way of seeing the world
Of exploring realities underneath.