Quotes About Creativity

I've wanted to write about them for a long while, but it's a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of a better poet, even more stunned by the world than I. But time is short. I write.

So poets keep on trying, and sooner or later the consecutive results of their self-dissatisfaction are clipped together with a giant paperclip by literary historians and called their "oeuvres." I

I've wanted to write about them for a long while, but it's a tricky subject, always put off for later and perhaps worthy of a better poet, even more stunned by the world than I. But time is short. I write.

Even poetry has its prosaic side.

Read good poetry and read it well, tracing the countless incarnations of every word. These are after all the same words lying dead in dictionaries or leading a gray life in speech. Then why do they shine like new in poems, as if the poet had just discovered them?

Poetry (whatever we may say) is, was, and will always be a game. And as very child knows, all games have rules. So why do grown-ups forget?

Even boredom must be described with passion.

Such stories may predominate in daily life, but when literature starts taking cues from statistics, it seals its own fate.

?ycie pisze najbardziej oryginalne, najbardziej komiczne a jednocze?nie najbardziej dramatyczne scenariusze.

Quatro bilhões de pessoas nesta terra, e minha imaginação é como era. Não se dá bem com grandes números.

Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page, are letters up to no good, clutches of clauses so subordinate they'll never let her get away. From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska

Lots of people come just to dance and have a good time. Here you can do anything you want to do, be anyone you want to be. It's called freedom. Be careful, it can be contagious.

If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

Ile? zdaÅ" mo?na utworzy? z dwudziestu czterech liter alfabetu? Ile? znaczeÅ" mo?na wyprowadzi? z setek chwastów, grudek i innych drobiazgów?

My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.

It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me

Na gruncie sztuki to odmienne (powiedziaÅ'bym: niechÄ™tne, lekcewa??ce) podejÅ›cie do formy mo?e zapewni? odnowienie i rozszerzenie Å›rodków artystycznego wyrazu. ProklamujÄ…c wszÄ™dzie gdzie siÄ™ da, zasadÄ™, ?e czÅ'owiek jest wy?szy od swoich wytworów, dostarczam swobody, jakiej bardzo potrzebuje dzisiaj nasza pokurczona dusza.

Nauczyciele, wychowawcy, kierownicy duchowi? W istocie, oni nauczyli czytelnika polskiego tej prawdy o literaturze, ?e ona jest czymÅ› w rodzaju szkolnych wypracowaÅ", pisanych po to aby belfer mógÅ' postawi? stopieÅ" [...] SÄ… to mistrzowie trywializacji, artyÅ›ci w przemienianiu ostrego ?ycia w nudnÄ… papkÄ™, gdzie wszystko jest mnie wiÄ™cej równie mierne i niewa?ne.

The eyes of boredom, old buddy, are bigger than those of fear! When you're bored, God only knows what you might imagine!

Jak mam co? do napisania, to staram si? pisa? jak najm?drzej i ?eby to by?o jak najlepsze. A to, czy ja jestem Polak podczas pisania, czy jestem Chi?czyk, to do mnie nie nale?y. Ja jestem cz?owiek i moj? robot? musz? zrobi? jak najlepiej.

It seems to me that here, accidentally, I have betrayed the greatest and ultimate secret of style: we have to know how to delight in the word. If literature generally dares to speak, it is not at all because it is certain of its truth, but only because it is certain of its delight.

Otó? fakt, ?e nasz jÄ™zyk nie zmienia siÄ™ od podstaw po przekroczeniu fatalnej granicy, ?e pomiÄ™dzy pierwszymi a ostatnimi sonatami Beethovena nie ma przepaÅ›ci, nie dajÄ…cej siÄ™ wypeÅ'ni?, jest bijÄ…cym w oczy dowodem, ?e czÅ'owiek w swym indywidualnym istnieniu nie mo?e siÄ™ wypowiedzie? - ?e jest milczeniem - ?e jest pozbawiony wyrazu.

I can say without exaggeration that I "devoted myself" to literature. For me, literature is not a matter of a career and future monuments but the excavating from myself of the maximum value of which I am capable. If it were to turn out that that which I write is inconsequential, then I am defeated not only as a writer but as a man.

Since I've written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy