The Courage To Create Author:May, Rollo The subject of creativity has become especially urgent in our day, pressing upon us not only because of our increasing leisure and the demands for new forms and symbols in our society, but also because of our tendency, as in any anxious age, to become mired in the past. Hence Dr. May sees courage as a prime essential for the creative act. Crea... more »tiity "requires a nimblenes, a fine-honed sensitivity if we are to be able to let ourselves be the vehicle of the new vision trying to emerge." He also sees the tragic side of creativity: the anxiety cured off by the inevitable destructiveness connected with all creativity leads us often to suppress the creatie vision before it can be born.« less