Quotes About Creativity

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

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Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

I am an i poet.

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As for expressing nobody-but-yourself in words, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't a poet can possibly imagine. Why? Because nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time — and whenever we do it, we're not poets.

though wish and world go down,one poem yet shall swim

And why? Is our genius only in our wombs? Can we not write books and create learned scholarship and perform music and provide philosophical models for the betterment of mankind?

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the keys, it was not just a piano in front of you, it was a universe.

In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe.

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested.

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...

For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" said Rilke.

All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly—you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. All the things that truly matter — beaut...y, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind...