Quotes About Creativity

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

What I try to do is to keep emotion on a tight leash; otherwise, it can never be transubstantiated into poetry.

Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.