Quotes About Creativity

I've always tried to be a poet more than anything else. I mean, professional musicians die.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.

The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness.

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet.

I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a poet.

My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people. If I am a painter, poet, composer, I am not really dependent on others.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.