Quotes About Creativity

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.