Quotes About Creativity

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

I thought that if one wanted to be a writer, one had to write novels because I didn't know that one could be a poet.

I got out of Iowa all set to be a poet and a novelist, but you know what? It's really tough to make a living as a poet.

I like bringing my poet brain and sensibility to lyrics I write.

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.

Every contemporary poet is a door to another poet.

My working habit is to separate my aims as a painting from my aims as a poet. They come from very different places and ultimately lead me to very different places... I'll leave what I mean by 'places' ambiguous.

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet.

I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell in love with, cinema.

I'm a poet.

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

Poetry is interesting because not everyone is going to become a great poet, but anyone can be, and anyone can enjoy poetry, and it's this openness, this accessibility of poetry that makes it the language of people.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.