Quotes About Creativity

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

You can't write poetry on the computer.

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.