Creativity Quotes

"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels." "The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." "This world is but a canvas to our imagination" "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live" "The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink" "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity" "I have no ambitions nor desires. To be poet is not my ambition, it's my way of being alone." "To read is to dream with open eyes." "The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible." "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" "To have great poets, there must be great audiences." "Do anything, but let it produce joy." "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity" "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success" "To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new" "My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees." "The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot." "Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance." "Understand that I am trying to make music out of my life."