Quotes About Creativity

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

There are very few great poets in the world.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

Poets take themselves very seriously.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

When I was ten, I spent a school holiday watching a lot of films: 'Dead Poets Society', 'Stand By Me', 'Home Alone' and 'The Goonies'. It completely inspired me. I told my parents I wanted to become an actor after that.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

Poets are like the decathletes of literature.

I think that's what poets try to do: They try to sidestep neurology and go straight to meaning.