Creativity Quote by Robert Burns

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

“Four very strange and truly poetic human beings in this century have attained mastery in prose, for which this century was not made otherwise—for…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is…

— Wilkie Collins

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and…

— Joseph Campbell

I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the bardic poetry,…

— Donovan

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the…

— Gary Snyder

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium of poetry…

— Dylan Thomas

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

— Seamus Heaney

A social consciousness should be reflected in your poetry.

— Gulzar

“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write,…

— W. H. Auden

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson