FOREWORD

Creativity is undoubtedly a condition for life. We wake up every morning with the idea that we must recreate ourselves for that day. It takes strength, desire, inspiration. Creativity, recreativity.

Where do we get it, where do we draw it from?

Ancient mythology considered the Muses to be the givers of inspiration, dancing in a circle around a violet fountain, enabling the poet to remember the only true image/word at the moment of inspiration, thus grasping order in chaos, the resulting work being the depository of harmony.

This is the spark of inspiration that every mortal needs every morning to plunge into the whirl of the day. Each day confronts us with the unknown, with the new, and it is easier for the more creative people because they are more open to the new, because they think in terms of the possible. For them it is a kind of claiming freedom of thought and action, a basic experience of self-actualisation.

Every morning the world calls us to interact with it, to try new strategies, to rearrange things, ourselves, to renew ourselves, to suspend the familiar order if possible, to create a special state of freedom that day, to change, to grow, to be reborn. Let us be brave enough to take risks, to stray from safety, to swim against the current, to be spontaneous. Let us also instinctively feel that our daily task is to recreate within ourselves a sublime sense of creative experience.

Prof. Dr. Erzsébet Csányi
University Professor
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Liberal Arts,
Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Serbia