Quotes About Creativity

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and more complex ever since I've started using a computer.

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

News isn't designed to talk about daily life in its nuances, but poetry is.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

Poetry is what happens when an anxiety meets a technique.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free verse served me best when I embarked on poetry.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it was a great way for me to express myself, I loved it.