Quotes About Creativity

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

You have to have been in love to write poetry.

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry.