Quotes About Creativity

Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.

The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.

Has it ever occurred to you, ' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

When a great poet has lived certain things have been done once for all and cannot be achieved again.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the.

Language is fossil poetry

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skilfully.

Every man is a poet at heart.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

A poem a day keeps the doctor away.

Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters.