“A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.” FeelsArtDesireCreativityEventsPoetWorshipImpulseAweWorks Of ArtTransformedPassiveRiteProvoked Author:W. H. Auden
“I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.” ThinkingArtArtistDifficultCreativityPoetFlowUniversal Author:Alex Grey
“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.” PainCreativityPoetHens Book:The Portable Nietzsche Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.” NeedsMayChildrenDoeArtPoetrySexCreativityCreativePoetBabyLaborMetaphorMotherhoodPregnancyFulfillingPrivilegedSailingSlursYeatsByzantium Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.” MayTwoEyePoetryImaginationCommonNumbersCreativityCreationPoetBirthExerciseAspectIdealsFunctionAddAll TimeMotivePoeticImaginativeUncommon Author:Walter Pater
“Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start oriented toward expression, and terminates in a word proffered, it wants to speak; whereas mystical because it emanates from the deepest longing of the spirit bent on knowing, tends of itself toward silence and internal fruition. Poetic experience is busy with the created world and the enigmatic and innumerable relations of existents with one another, not with the Principle of Being.” WorldWantSpiritPoetrySpeakSilencePrinciplesCreativityKnowingPoetExpressionRelationLongingBusyInternalsPoeticMysticalBentFruitionEmanateEnigmaticMystical Experiences Author:Jacques Maritain
“Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.” PeopleHumansChildrenBornHuman BeingsWatchesCreativityMillionsCreativePoetCreatorAcceptedFoolishPainterOne In A Million Author:Rajneesh
“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.” WritingTryingFeelingsPassionCreativityPoetConvincedEnthusiasmPoetry IsCarols Author:Edward Hirsch