Creativity Quotes

"All writing is in fact cut-ups."

"Talent is something you're born with."

"Talent is like a muscle; it must be exercised or it atrophies."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction of what came before."

"The key is to make poetry with your life"

"To create is to rebel against the forces that would reduce us to nothing"

"The cut-up method is the most direct way of expressing the truth."

"Creativity is the highest form of rebellion."

"I have discovered that most of the things I've done, I've done for the sake of their form."

"Creativity is the spark of human evolution."

"Creativity is divinity expressing itself."

"You're a genius all the time."

"Since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things"

"I must record the millions of arabesques on this blank check of chaos."

"Creativity knows no boundaries."

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life worth living."

"A writer has to guess, to hope, to trust and believe in the emotion of his work."

"I really am quite the artist at heart."

"A poem is a small machine made of words that makes meaning dance."

"A true poem surprises both the reader and the writer."

"Follow your inner moonlight do not hide the madness"

"Creativity is the expression of the soul through form"

"A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman."

"Ideas are the miracles of the world."

"Man has created a new cosmos, whose materia prima is the imagination."

"Everything tends to become symbol."

"The final form is the form of the feeling."

"The nature of poetry is changing as rapidly as the world changes."

"I want to be able to love without despair, to create without guilt."

"Ecstasy affords the occasion and expediency determines the form."