Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"Come, my songs, let us express the atmosphere of this dawn."Ezra Pound
"Every idea must have its form or it is not an idea at all."Ezra Pound
"To create is to engage in the highest human activity."Ezra Pound
"Create a world that matches the promise you've been given."Maya Angelou
"You cannot use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."Maya Angelou
"Writing saved me from the sin and stagnation of despair."Alice Walker
"I believe in the power of telling our own stories."Alice Walker
"Art is a mirror and a hammer for social change."Toni Cade Bambara
"Imagination is the first tool of liberation."Toni Cade Bambara
"In the midst of chaos, there is opportunity for creation."Carl Sandburg
"Creativity is the act of bringing something new from nothing."Carl Sandburg
"I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do."Gertrude Stein
"Genius is in the approach."Gertrude Stein
"In the act of creation there is a moment of ecstasy."Gertrude Stein
"Writing is undoing the sense of being trapped by circumstance."Robert Frost
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given and make it over your way."Robert Frost
"A poem is never a put-up job; so to speak. It begins as a mere gleam or inchoate form in the mind."Robert Frost
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."T.S. Eliot
"The individual talent grows from the tradition."T.S. Eliot
"Creativity requires constraint."T.S. Eliot
"Make it new."Ezra Pound
"The more there is multiplied in writing, the more there must be of concentration."Ezra Pound
"The true alchemist does not seek gold; he seeks transformation."Ezra Pound
"Innovation requires destruction of the old to build the new."Ezra Pound
"We are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves and each other."Toni Cade Bambara
"To create is to resist."Toni Cade Bambara
"Art is the space where truth becomes tangible."Toni Cade Bambara
"The healing journey often begins with writing."Alice Walker
"Your ancestors wish to speak through your talents."Alice Walker
"The power to create is within every person."Alice Walker