Quotes About Creativity

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.

I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.

A documentary film-maker can't help but use poetry to tell the story. I bring truth to my fiction. These things go hand in hand.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why today's songs don't have a shelf life is because of inane lyrics.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry.

I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.