Quotes About Creativity

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

I would like my books to stand as a tool to unbind children from expectations of poetry because it should free the child to self-expression and exploration.

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

The poetry of life must not be replaced with matter-of-fact prose.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

I sing, I clean house, I write poetry. I cry. And I tell everyone I can, "I Believe in YOU."

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with the form than just competition.