Quotes About Creativity

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

They see poetry in what I have done. No. I apply my methods, and that is all there is to it.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

Prose is walking; poetry is flying

Poetry must be made by all and not by one.

I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

Poetry is the apotheosis of sentiment.

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

There has been a vast output of critical studies in contemporary poetry, some of them first rate, but I do not think that , as a rule, a poet should read them.