Quotes About Creativity

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

In poetry you must love the words the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies.

There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.

The essentials of poetry are rhythm dance and the human voice.

Most joyful let the Poet be it is through him that all men see.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.

If poetry dies, nothing lives !

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something more' could be abstracted from the whole, it might well prove to be that which makes the whole a poem.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

If politics is the art of the possible, theatre is the art of the impossible.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

The man who can sing when he hasn't got a thing, he's the king of the whole wide world.