Quotes About Creativity

I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.

The cliche is dead poetry.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

I don't write poetry when I wish, I write when I can't, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Prose talks and poetry sings.

Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged

In English, we were still on the Introduction to Poetry Unit, and I'm not lying, if I ever meet Percy Bysshe Shelley walking down the streets of Marysville, I'm going to punch him right in the face.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.

I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

I'm only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry.