Speaking recently at a hotel in mid-Manhattan, he explained how "La Pasión" had sprung from experience and fear: "the fear of being a Jew writing a Christian piece" and the experience -- as a Jew, an outsider -- of watching Holy Week processions in his native Argentina, of seeing "that crazy mixture of Italian and Spanish processions, but at the rhythm of salsa".
Each twitch of Murray's racket is hard-wired to a brain that is alert to danger as much as victory, caution that springs from experience, which is why he has been reluctant to heed persistent calls for him to abandon, or at least overhaul, his passive game and entertain us unreservedly with sweet volleys, crushing drives down the line, cross-court flicks and drop-shots that tease the net.
We believe Albert Einstein knew an absolute and basic truth of how the human brain creates knowledge: 'It seems that the human mind has first to construct form independently before we can find them in things....the truth [is] that knowledge cannot spring from experience alone, but only from a comparison of the inventions of the intellect with observed facts.
Boris Pasternak wrote of Tsvetaeva's poetic form that it had "sprung living from experience - personal and neither narrow-chested nor short of breath from line to line but rich and compact and enveloping sequences of stanza after stanza in its vast periods of unbroken rhythm".
Their emphasis on inclusion sprang from their experience as an interracial couple.
At 63, Mr. Ayckbourn has written going on 60 plays, all sprung from practical experience, untainted by formal study.
This poem — particularly its wry yet empathetic tone — seems to spring from personal experience with an unruly pen.
She admits: "I am no longer convinced there is any inherent value in grief; or, if there is, if wisdom springs from the experience of terrible loss, it's a wisdom one might do without".
While Ms. Hirschmann's interests in the testing wars and the eating wars spring from personal experience, is there anything common to both for her? "They are both about being constrained, about fitting into a narrowly defined box that can create havoc in your life," she replies.
The idea for Chefs Feed sprung from that experience, as they hoped to provide chefs with their own platform for sharing that info.
Méndez's viewpoints spring from life experience.
