Quotes about Creativity
I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.
— Joseph Campbell
The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
We are surrounded by poetry on all sides.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Wine is bottled poetry.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
— Oscar Wilde
But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.
— AA Milne
The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.
— Samuel Johnson
Poetry is not a luxury.
— Audre Lorde
Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.
— Samuel Johnson
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