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Donald Woods Winnicott Quotes: It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.
         

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.


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Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

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The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.



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