Art & Creativity Sayings

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us.

Sleep is the most innocent creature and the most, therefore, defenseless. When I sleep, I am a stone in the ground.

I am not a writer. I am a man who writes.

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am not a woman but a man, for I can think, I can write, I can be a thousand things.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Write drunk, edit sober.

I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere.

I have always said that the best way to write is to do it with your eyes closed.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

I could not be a Poet – as I was not a Bird – And so I chose to be a Fly – And buzz around the World –

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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 best way to predict the future is to create it.