Quotes About Creativity

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Poetry is the Devil's wine.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Sherman Alexie, One Stick Song

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

Poets are born, not paid.

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.

We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Without poetry, stories would be told in sepia.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.