Quotes About Creativity

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

Poetry is a kinetic arrangement of static syllables.

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.

When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.