Quotes About Creativity

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

. . . All artists' work is autobiographical. Any writer's work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

Let yourself become living poetry.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.