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
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"The greatest creative act is to envision a better world and commit oneself to its creation."
Washington Irving
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"If you take my meaning, I am always doing it."
Emily Dickinson
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"The spider is an artist."
Emily Dickinson
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"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his impact."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The imagination is ever the source of profoundest thoughts."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"To be a genius is to be utterly alone."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"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
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
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"There is magic in the letter I."
Herman Melville
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"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
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"The true genius shakes the world, and leaves no doubt of his passion."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"A poet's heart is a dictionary of longing."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"To create is to defy the ordinary."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I am a collector of melancholy moments."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I hide myself within my flower that fading from my flower I get back to me."
Emily Dickinson
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"Creativity flows when the mind abandons its own rules."
Emily Dickinson
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"Creativity is the recombination of elements in new and unexpected ways."
Washington Irving
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
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"Creativity is rebellion against the chains of convention."
Herman Melville
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"A piece of writing is never finished; it is only abandoned."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"To be a writer is to be forever young."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The true genius shudders at incompleteness and sees in all deficiency a goad to action."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I have composed no work of greater internal meaning."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The way to know life is to love many things."
Emily Dickinson
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"The poets light but lamps, ourselves must supply the oil."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Spider holds a Silver Ball in unperceived Hands and dancing softly to Herself."
Emily Dickinson