Quotes About Creativity

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

It's not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.