Quotes About Creativity

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.

Poetry is life distilled.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.