Quotes About Creativity

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise!

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.