Quotes About Creativity

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.

I know who the great poets are.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I didn't know any poets growing up in Kansas.

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our lives have become busier: jobs, children, and the like.