Quotes About Creativity

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

To write at the same temperature at which I live I should write nothing but poetry.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

There's no preparation for poetry.

I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry.

If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.

During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped.

As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know.

A poet is a painter of the soul.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.