Quotes About Creativity

And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for amateurs, dilettantes, part-time thinkers, 25-watt feelers, the lazy, the insensitive, or the imitative. It is for the creative, and creativity implies both talent and hard work.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation becomes a game. In the next two weeks we spent a few dollars on white paint and dotted swiss, and were settled. The

maybe we were the diggers of literature

Some Heisenberg principle frustrates critics who try to analyze how stories are written. Whatever they can analyze has to be dead before it can be dissected.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

The plum survives its poems.

Money is a kind of poetry.

The poet is priest of the invisible.

The essential thing in form is to be free in whatever form is used. A free form does not assure freedom. As a form, it is just one more form. So that it comes to this, I suppose, that I believe in freedom regardless of form.

The essential gaudiness of poetry.

Just as my fingers on these keysMake music, so the self-same soundsOn my spirit make a music, too.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Poetry is the subject of the poem.

The imagination is man's power over nature.

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.

It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.

A change of style is a change of meaning.

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

Poetry is the scholar's art.