Best Creativity Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“The battle with the gods thus hinges on our own mortality! Creativity is a yearning for immortality.”

“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets.”

“No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.”

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that "shaping" force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.”

“Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.”

“But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.”

“Your message might reach the ears of the audience, barely scratch the surface of their minds, and never get close to their hearts—to what they care about.”

“Not everyone needs to have the rhetorical wizardry of Barack Obama or the wordsmithery of Ernest Hemingway! You just need to be authentic.”

“What will other people think? It reflects the human yearning for belonging versus the imagined harsh reactions of the world. But in reality, people care much less than you think, and that’s the naked truth.”

“Speak your truth and share your story, for you never know the magic that awaits on the other side of authenticity and vulnerability.”

“Hope is like a beacon in the darkness. It stands like a lighthouse, guiding lost ships toward safe shores.”

“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”

“Every impression ever made on a person from newborn babyhood onwards will contribute to the shape and texture of the imagination.”

“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”

“Let them shoot us in the head,”

“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.”

“At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.”

“Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge.”

“... and I realise the only way to tell the others”

“I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.”

“At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.”

“Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.”

“But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.”

“Does writing poetry make you brave? It is a good question to ask. I think making anything is a brave thing to do. Not like fighting brave, obviously. But a kind that looks at a horrible situation and doesn’t crumble.”

“Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.”

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”

“I write because there are things in me that cannot die.”

“Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.”

“The Fourth Sign of The Zodiac (Part 3) by Mary Oliver”

“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”