Quotes About Creativity

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it.

Poetry is a religion with no hope.