Quotes About Creativity

I love my funny poems, but I'd rather break your heart. And if I can do both in the same poem, that's the best.

I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. Reading by reading, I just kind of follow my nose.

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

My intention is to write poems. That's what I've been doing most of my life.

My poems are always about my life in one way or another.

I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.

Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.

People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems.

I write poems.

If you sit down to write a limerick, you find yourself straddling two histories: the history of the limerick form itself, which stretches back to at least the 11th century, and your personal history of knowing limericks or poems similar to limericks.

When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is filled with fantasies, and I have to write them all down.

Everybody that read one of my poems went off and wrote poetry. They said that about the Velvets, didn't they? They didn't sell many records, but everybody that saw them formed a band.

Short stories and poems are an intense burst of emotions.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

And muse on Nature with a poet's eye.

I shall, in due time, be a Poet.

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.

I'm a poet, first and foremost as a writer. That's who I am. That's what I'm most comfortable writing.