Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me. . . to me. . . " He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.
But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.