Quotes About Creativity

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.

I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.

I'm from the beatnik generation, where everybody wanted to be a poet or writer or something. And at that time, I was a jazz critic, and I was always thinking, theorizing about what makes great art or what's important in art.

I'm a poet first and foremost, before the modelling.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more highly developed muscles and better coordination. And he practises his activity according to a stricter set of rules.

A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

I began to imitate what I was reading, and I started to become a poet, even though what I was writing were not good poems.