Creativity Quotes
Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.
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"Creativity is the bridge between our inner world and the outer realm of manifestation."Washington Irving
"The greatest creative act is to envision a better world and commit oneself to its creation."Washington Irving
"If you take my meaning, I am always doing it."Emily Dickinson
"The spider is an artist."Emily Dickinson
"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his impact."Edgar Allan Poe
"The imagination is ever the source of profoundest thoughts."Edgar Allan Poe
"To be a genius is to be utterly alone."Edgar Allan Poe
"Creativity flows from the intersection of despair and hope."Edgar Allan Poe
"Song of the universal, come, I sing the song of the universal."Walt Whitman
"When the Muses come they shake me, they make unhappy, restless."Walt Whitman
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."Herman Melville
"There is magic in the letter I."Herman Melville
"What is poetry but the most creative of all acts."Herman Melville
"To create something lasting is to achieve a form of immortality."James Fenimore Cooper
"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his passion."Edgar Allan Poe
"A poet's heart is a dictionary of longing."Edgar Allan Poe
"To create is to defy the ordinary."Edgar Allan Poe
"I am a collector of melancholy moments."Edgar Allan Poe
"I hide myself within my flower that fading from my flower I get back to me."Emily Dickinson
"Creativity flows when the mind abandons its own rules."Emily Dickinson
"Creativity is the recombination of elements in new and unexpected ways."Washington Irving
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."Herman Melville
"Creativity is rebellion against the chains of convention."Herman Melville
"A piece of writing is never finished; it is only abandoned."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To be a writer is to be forever young."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The true genius shudders at incompleteness and sees in all deficiency a goad to action."Edgar Allan Poe
"I have composed no work of greater internal meaning."Edgar Allan Poe
"The way to know life is to love many things."Emily Dickinson
"The poets light but lamps, ourselves must supply the oil."Emily Dickinson
"The Spider holds a Silver Ball in unperceived Hands and dancing softly to Herself."Emily Dickinson