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A pet cat often settled on the long and broad cuff of Muhammed's sleeve when he was writing, thus interrupting his work in Arabia, but a butterfly occasionally settled on the pencil of W.H. Davies, the tramp poet, and perhaps assisted his verse-making in a little Kentish cottage. Yet who knows, the pauses of inaction may have allowed Muhammed to relapse into meditation and thus, indirectly, assisted or enriched the subsequent writing.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 2 : Creativity, Genius > # 62