Quotes About Creativity

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

Writing poetry is a process of discovery...you can smell the poem before you see it....Like some animal.

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't care less if I were to fall overripe to the ground.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels.

I have been eating poetry.

Poetry cannot take sides except with life.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

The only people who have trouble with poetry are the people who link it with literature. It's much more akin to mountain-walking, and dancing by yourself at 2 A.M.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.

Poetry keeps longing alive.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.