Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush.

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Fourier is a mathematical poem.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Music is poetry with personality.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.