Creativity Quote by Lesley Glaister

Imagining birth as the baby experiences it was an entirely new way of looking at it,

— Frederick Leboyer

“Beauty for Beauty's sake and only later for the sake of others, newborn for a day.”

— Donald Revell

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

— John Locke

“Creation of a pregnant imagination.”

— Delano Johnson

“The most interesting thing about babies is that they are so enormously interested; the most wonderful thing about them is their infinite capacity for…

— Alison Gopnik

“There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of…

— William Carlos WIlliams

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of a feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups,…

— Adrienne Rich

“Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely…

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

“Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion in itself, in the dark,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”

— Barbara Katz Rothman