Quotes About Creativity

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable.

Sexual activity is driven by the same aims and motives as reading poetry or listening to music: to escape the limitations imposed by the need for particularity in the consciousness.

Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret to make you think: Why is the crazy stuff we never say, poetry in ink?

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.