Wherefore the aforesaid William (after a long and dispendious stay at the Roman Court, after much and unavailing waste of money, after many bulls obtained on his behalf, . . . seeing that his wiles profited him little or naught in all these matters ...

Mind over matter is magic, I do magic / If you think about it, it'll be over in no time

Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

In the total artistic process the two phases—rational and non-rational, planful and inspirational—may be successive or simultaneous.