Quotes About Creativity

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely and in as involved a way as you can.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

Poetry gave me back my voice.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got to turn away all the peripherals.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

There were poets before Homer.

Adjectives are the potbelly of poetry.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.