351 Quotes About Creative-process

It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

you areso deliciousto my poetic side.

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Let your focus always be on the encouragement of innovation, experimentation, and creativity.    

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning -- it'll be gone."[Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver (O Magazine, March 2011)]

After passionately nursing this idea for about an hour, I suddenly had another idea: no I wouldn't. Of course I wouldn't make an entire city out of cereal boxes in the basement. The moment I had this second thought, I knew this was the real one.

Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn—possibly even arrogant—enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.