Quotes About Creativity

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

I always wanted to write poetry, even when I was very young.

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without it. Both on the physical plain, and the soul plain. Poetry helps us endure.

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I allow no hot-beds in the gardens of Parnassus.

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.