Art & Creativity Sayings

The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

The world is too complex, too interconnected, for any nation to imagine it can isolate itself and remain unaffected.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The greatest beauty is that which is natural.

Architecture is frozen music.

Truly, to enjoy thoroughly the true poetry of the sea, your poem must preserve all its wildest prose.

I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections.

The cat, you know, is a perfect symbol of beauty and cruelty.

An English philosopher, named Locke, has stated that 'the human mind is a blank sheet of paper, whereon experience writes its lessons.'

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to suffer. When I am grown, I shall be a poet.

I want to write because I have the urge to create. I want to write because I have the urge. I want to write because I.

I'm a Buddhist, and I'm a Jew, and I'm a gay man, and I'm a poet, and I'm an American, and I'm a human being. I'm all of those things.

The word is a virus that creates its own reality.

I'm a writer, not a saint.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.

But O, the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return!

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Poetry, thank God, does not need reason.