Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

I began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt.

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

The poetry is myself.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.