Quotes About Creativity

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.

A poem is bound by language, but a poetics is not.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

Creating a poem is a continual process of re-creating your ignorance, in the sense of not knowing what's coming next.

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

I can write a poem in 10 minutes. I like writing songs; I can write songs in 5 or 10 minutes. My concentration seems very short.

For me, to have had an impact with anything that you've done, whether it's a painting, a photo, a poem, or something that you've created, just that experience is enormous. You don't get that all the time.

A poem gives me a chance to have an encounter with a feeling, with an experience, with a wish, with an idea.

They're very different things, a poem and a song, you wouldn't think they would be, but they are.

When you break a poem down in order to perform it, you have to engage closely with many aspects of what it's about, how it works, how it's constructed and so on. If you write a poem alongside it, to complement it, you start to feel poetry's method, poetry's way of looking at things.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.

The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems.

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

I don't write poems. I don't give flowers to girls... yet.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.