Quotes about Creativity
Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.
- Nikki Giovanni
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
- Margaret Atwood
Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
- Aristotle
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
- Edith Schaeffer
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free.
- Helen Keller
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
- John Lennon
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?
- Virginia Woolf
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.
- Robert Frost
The essence of poetry is will and passion.
- William Hazlitt
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
- Cicero
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.
- Philip Yancey
Why then we should drop into poetry.
- Charles Dickens