Quotes about Creativity

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

A poet never takes notes..you never take notes in a Love Affair.

Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

I am for the artist, who is more alone than he looks. I am not for the reformer, who is always active but usually has nothing to give. The real thing that you do is a lonely thing. And remember the paradox that you become more social in order that you may become more of an individual.

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

Oh, what I know about myself isn't really worth telling, said Anne eagerly. If you'll only let me tell you what I imagine about myself you'll think it ever so much more interesting.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.