Quotes About Creativity

Let your poem be kept nine years.

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Poems are difficult to silence.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

To do something very common, in my own way.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

Poetry makes nothing happen.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Poetry is the scholar's art.

...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer.