Quotes About Creativity

I would say my life experiences are my poetry, whether I'm writing about those actual, factual experiences or not.

You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch with to write poetry.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

Often when I write poetry I don't quite know what I'm saying myself. I mean, I can't restate the poem. The meaning of the poem is the poem.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Now, the process of writing poetry is very messy. Not systematic, never quite the same

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.

Poetry is always close kin to the impossible, isn't it?

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.