Quotes About Creativity

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.

I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.