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