"The subliminal self is in no way inferior to the conscious self; it is not purely automatic; it is capable of discernment; it has tact, delicacy; it knows how to choose, to divine. What do I say? It knows better how to divine than the conscious self, since it succeeds where that has failed."

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/08/15/henri-poincare-on-how-creativity-works/