Quotes About Creativity

It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

In real life, having your poetry criticized by T.S. Eliot could cause you to doubt your poetic gifts. But imagining it in a dream has the opposite effect. That dream could become the source for a story.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

I may not be poetic but i'd love to write songs that convey my true feelings.

For me, the poetic decisions tend to be calculated, and the musical decisions inspired by the poetic decisions are free.

I try to use a poetic language more than talk about my feelings, but it is married to the music.

I was taught that poems don't end, they just kind of stop. There's never an ending to a poem; it's a continuation for later. When I write, I write for me, and I write in poetic form.

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

The crown of literature is poetry.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.