Quotes About Creativity

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

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

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

Painting is silent poetry.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.