Quotes About Creativity

Poetry is a break for freedom.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

Fiction and poetry expose intimate things from a person's life every bit as much as memoir does, and sometimes more. I don't quite see or live the distinction you are making about the forms.

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

Why then we should drop into poetry.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

There is no end to grief. Nor no end to poetry.

You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.

Part of what I try to do in schools is take poetry off of a pedestal and make it a little more accessible and approachable.

To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

I really came to literature through poetry.

Each man has his own batch of poems.

The starting point of a picture for any painter is a matter of colors and form...I believe that the poetry of art - if that is what one may call it - is a matter of animating these forms and colors.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.