Quotes About Creativity

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime.

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.