Quotes About Creativity

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

I love a little Richard Brautigan poetry.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

I love poetry - just to read it and be around it.

My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.