Quotes About Originality

How can I be myself, when others expect me to be someone else?

All too often it's easier to be someone else than just being yourself.

Be yourself!What harm can it do?

Be yourself! Now that would be different!

If you want to be unique.Just be yourself.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

The cliche is dead poetry.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

To do something very common, in my own way.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.