Finally, creative work thrives within constraints. The sonnet’s 14 lines and strict meter channel emotion into memorable form; Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1609) show how limits sharpen language. Igor Stravinsky wrote in Poetics of Music (1942), “The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self.” When constraints are self‑imposed, they function as gentle discipline—daily pages, a five‑color palette, a one‑hour window—that transforms nebulous vision into finished pieces. Thus, the bridge is not a cage; it is a span designed to carry inspiration safely across. [...]
