One of the best examples is Rimbaud’s description of his creative processes in which he states “I am present at the birth of my thought. I look and I listen” or accounts of revelatory insights emerging, seemingly unbidden, through dreams, as the story of Kekule’s discovery of the structure of the benzene ring. Creative minds across disciplines concretize the idea we are developing about mutual engagement between ideas and those who develop them in various terms, some of which attribute sentience and volition, even if metaphorically, to the sources of their ideas as well as to the ideas themselves. The scientist Everet Just speaks of a central idea in his scientific work having “ridden” him for years. The conceptions of inspiration by the Muses developed by the Greeks and Romans, as well as Dante’s and Milton’s invocations to God represent the most definitive examples of this conception of inspiration in relation to ideas of cocreative agency.