Quotes About Innovation

ALATE POSTULATEWhen angels were invented, flight required wings

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

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

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

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

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

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?