Quotes About Creativity

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Poetry is a big space and I love it.

I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.

...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.