Quotes About Creativity

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.

Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation

I love to write poetry.

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

When I'm most deeply involved in my writing, sometimes I do dream about poetry, and occasionally I wake up from a dream with a phrase that I like well enough to put it in a poem.

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

In poetic thought, the role of the subconscious is played by euphony.

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose.

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted

A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.

Besides, a long poem is a test of invention, which I take to be the Polar star of Poetry, as Fancy is the sails - and Imagination the rudder.