Quotes About Creativity

There can be poetry in the writings of few men; but it ought to be in the hearts and lives of all.

It's easier to write poetry on a bad day, when your heart has been halved and emotions bleed out through the pen.

The true power of the poet is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry should never hurt. It may stab you with poetic pangs of melancholy but shouldn't ever hurt as life does.

And let me be rather but honest with no-wit, Than a noisy nonsensical half-witted poet.

A poet rarely swashes ink but mostly mists at subtleties.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick, and say to yourself, when the works are laid out before you, the vowels, the consonants, the rhymes or rhythms, 'Yes, this is it. This is why the poem moves me so...' But you're back again where you began. You've back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

VERS LIBRE. A device for making poetry easier to write and harder to read.

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

Modern poets mix much water with their ink.

Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge...

All poetry is simply an escape from reality. It says what is palpably not true. The only difference between poets is a difference in the kind of escape they crave. Some are content with visions of a pretty girl who is also a good cook and pays for the marketing out of her own funds; others demand the insane consolations of metaphysics, or the hiding-place of a jargon no one can understand.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Disrespect for poets is a kind of tradition.

poets swing too high until the chain kinks and snaps mid-air the fall is poetry

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet...

I sew my life together with the glittering threads of poetry.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.