Quotes About Creativity

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought!... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details & particulars of a valley & its frame of crags & peaks, then Poetry comes, & lays bare the whole landscape with a single splendid flash.

A poet is too impatient for prose. He needs an expressway to his emotions.

When you unprose language, does it become poetry?

Put all your faith in poets. You will find few others to share Beauty with you; and it cannot be borne alone.

I think poetry is the greatest of the arts. It combines music and painting and story-telling and prophecy and the dance. It is religious in tone, scientific in attitude. A true poem contains the seed of wonder...

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Poetry is emotion put into measure.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words. Some poems took years to find their words.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. The poet is the Pandora of the mind.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness: But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

He who draws noble delights from the sentiment of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

...lyrical poems, deriving from everywhere and nowhere as is the case with all poetry...

...since a lunch was cancelled because of the snow, I was suddenly given a few hours of unexpected time and managed to get down a poem that had been pursuing me for days.

Writing poetry is letting go— once the words leave your pen they're out of your soul and the therapy has begun.

The stereotype is that a poet shoots his load at 25 years old and goes around the rest of his life doddering.

A poet cannot stop writing poems — an ink-stained soul compels his obsession.

Poets smoke nature and beauty and angst and exhale swirling plumes of poetry.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Poetry is an inky soulprint.

The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder.

Poetry treks through our souls and tells us in rhyme of the adventure.