Quotes About Creativity

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, grace metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, Why don't you say what you mean? We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes all the pressure off the second.

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

I could say Elves to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. –

I won't have it, in poetry, that bulk counts. People say to me, 'Now settle down and do a long work, since you have shown the public that you can produce beautiful short poetry.' And their implication tells me that making two verses or a short poem does not satisfy their concept of what an accomplished poet should be able to do. Bulk they want, as evidence of a man's power.

No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

I make a virtue of my suffering From nearly everything that goes on round me. In other words, I know wherever I am, Being the creature of literature I am, I shall not lack for pain to keep me awake.

And poems are all that matter. The utmost of ambition is to lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of. –

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

I may as well confess myself the author Of several books against the world in general.

If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.

Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

And I'm not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

If you want an interesting party sometime combine a few cocktails and a box of crayons.

Imagination is more important than information." Einstein said that, and he should know.

There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.