Quotes About Creativity

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

All poetry is experimental poetry.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

Solitude is an essential element of poetry.

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be made just by pointing at something and saying, "That's a poem".

Poetry cannot be translation

He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.